The role of warm extreme events as triggers for high-mountain slope failures: recent evidence and future scenarios

(1) Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland (christian.huggel@geo.uzh.ch, +41 1 6356841), (2) Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg Switzerland, (3) Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (4) Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, (5) Geology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA, USA, (6) Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK, USA, (7) U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage AK, USA