Publications

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ORCID:                        http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1291-8524

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Kellerer-Pirklbauer A., Bodin X., Delaloye R., Lambiel C., Gärtner-Roer I., Bonnefoy-Demongeot M., Carturan L., Damm B., Eulenstein J., Fischer A., Hartl L., Ikeda A., Kaufmann V., Krainer K., Matsuoka N., Morra di Cella U., Noetzli J., Seppi R., Scapozza C., Schoeneich P., Stocker-Waldhuber M., Thibert E., Zumiani M. (2024): Acceleration and interannual variability of creep rates in mountain permafrost landforms (rock glacier velocities) in the European Alps in 1995–2022. Environmental Research Letters: Focus collection Perma-frost Vulnerability to Climate Change doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a4

Spagnesi A., Bohleber P., Barbaro E., Feltracco M., De Blasi F., Dreossi G., Stocker-Waldhuber M., Festi D., Gabrieli J., Gambaro A., Fischer A. and Barbante C. (2023) Preservation of chemical and isotopic signatures within the Weißseespitze millennial old ice cap (Eastern Alps), despite the ongoing ice loss. Front. Earth Sci. 11:1322411. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1322411

Fischer, A. (2023). Wie der forschende Blick auf die Gletscher unsere Sicht auf die Welt änderte. In: Edith Hessenberger, Veronika Raich: Ötztaler Gletscher. Katastrophen, Klimawandel, Kunst, Ötztaler Museen Schriften, 9, Studienverlag Innsbruck, 15-33.

Vukovic, M. and A. Fischer (2023): The Camera as a Tool in Geography: Parallels between Friedrich Simony’s Pictures of the Dachstein and the Use of Photographic Images in Geography Today, Art Journal of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, 3/2022, LXX, S. 303–311,  HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.54759/ART-2022-0305

Fischer A., and M. Vuković (2023): Visual Proof: How Glacier Photography Shows Us the Reality of Climate Change. In: Moritz Neumüller (Ed.): The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice, Taylor & Francis, 454 Pages.

Pilø, L., Reitmaier, T., Fischer, A., Barrett, J. H., & Nesje, A. (2023). Ötzi, 30 years on: A reappraisal of the depositional and post-depositional history of the find. The Holocene, 33(1), 112–125. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221126133

Fischer, A., Adolf, H., Bender, O. (2022). Are the Skiing Industry, Globalisation, and Urbanisation of Alpine Landscapes Threatening Human Health and Ecosystem Diversity?. In: Nishi, M., Subramanian, S.M., Gupta, H. (eds) Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS). Satoyama Initiative Thematic Review. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9893-4_8

Fischer, A., Stocker-Waldhuber, M., Frey, M. et al. Contemporary mass balance on a cold Eastern Alpine ice cap as a potential link to the Holocene climate. Sci Rep 12, 1331 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04699-2

Fischer A., Felbauer L., Janicke A., Helfricht K., Hoffmann H., Wild EM. (2022) Glaciers, Climate and People: Holocene Transitions in the Stubai Valley. In: Schickhoff U., Singh R., Mal S. (eds) Mountain Landscapes in Transition. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70238-0_9

Wagner, T. S. Kainz, K. Helfricht, A. Fischer, M. Avian, K. Krainer, G. Winkler, 2021, Assessment of liquid and solid water storage in rock glaciers versus glacier ice in the Austrian Alps, Science of The Total Environment, 800, 149593, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149593.

Hartl, L., Helfricht, K., Stocker-Waldhuber, M., Seiser, B., & Fischer, A. 2021. Classifying disequilibrium of small mountain glaciers from patterns of surface elevation change distributions. Journal of Glaciology, 1-16. doi:10.1017/jog.2021.90

Hohensinner S., Atzler U., Fischer A., Schwaizer G., Helfricht K., Tracing the Long-Term Evolution of Land Cover in an Alpine Valley 1820–2015 in the Light of Climate, Glacier and Land Use Changes, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 2021, 331, https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2021.683397,  doi:10.3389/fenvs.2021.683397  

Fischer, A. and Mayer, C., 2021. The History of Glaciology in the Inner Ötztal Alps, p 497-517. In: Fowler, A. and F. Ng: Glaciers and Ice Sheets in the Climate System, Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42584-5_20.

Bohleber, P., Schwikowski, M., Stocker-Waldhuber, M. et al. New glacier evidence for ice-free summits during the life of the Tyrolean Iceman. Sci Rep 10, 20513 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77518-9

Hartl, L., Felbauer, L., Schwaizer, G., and Fischer, A.: Small-scale spatial variability in bare-ice reflectance at Jamtalferner, Austria, The Cryosphere, 14, 4063–4081, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4063-2020, 2020.

Fischer A., 2020. Alpengletscher, Tyrolia. Mit Bildern von Bernd Ritschel

Andrea Fischer, Wolfgang Schöner und Jan-Christoph Otto, Gletschergefahren. In : In: T. Glade, M. Mergili, K. Sattler (Hrsg.), ExtremA 2019. Aktueller Wissensstand zu Extremereignissen alpiner Naturgefahren in Österreich. Vienna University Press, S. 563–578.

Zemp, M., Sajood, A.A., Pitte, P., van Ommen, T., Fischer, A., Soruco, A., Thomson, L., Schaefer, M., Li, Z., Ceballos Lievano, J.L., Cáceres Correa, B.E., Vincent, C., Tielidze, L., Braun, L.N., Ahlstrøm, A.P., Hannesdóttir, H., Dobhal, D.P., Karimi, N., Baroni, C., Fujita, K., Severskiy, I., Prinz, R., Usubaliev, R., Delgado-Granados, H., Demberel, O., Joshi, S.P., Anderson, B., Hagen, J.O., Dávila Roller, L.R., Gadek, B., Popovnin, V.V., Cobos, G., Holmlund, P., Huss, M., Kayumov, A., Lea, J.M., Pelto, M., and Yakovlev, A. (2019): Glacier monitoring to track warming. Nature, 576, p. 39.  go.nature.com/34ak25y

Magdalena Vuković (Hg.): Von wunderbarer Klarheit: Friedrich Simonys Gletscherfotografien, 1875–1891, mit Texten von Monika Faber, Andrea Fischer, Friedrich Simony und Magdalena Vuković, Wien: Album Verlag, 2019, 104 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen.

https://www.bonartes.org/index.php/publikationen-detail/von-wunderbarer-klarheit.html

Fischer, A., T. Fickert, G. Schwaizer, G. Patzelt & G.Groß, 2019, Vegetation dynamics in Alpine glacier forelands tackled from space, Nature Scientific Reports 9, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50273-2

Stocker-Waldhuber, M., Fischer, A., Helfricht, K., and Kuhn, M.: Long-term records of glacier surface velocities in the Ötztal Alps (Austria), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 705-715, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-705-2019, 2019.

Feng, Z., P. Bohleber, S. Ebser, L. Ringena, M. Schmidt, A. Kersting, P. Hopkins, H. Hoffmann, A. Fischer, W. Aeschbach, M. K. Oberthaler, 2019, Dating glacier ice of the last millennium by quantum technology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Apr 2019, 201816468; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1816468116.

Helfricht, K., M. Huss, A. Fischer and J.-C. Otto (2019).Calibrated ice thickness estimate for all glaciers in Austria, Front. Earth Sci. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00068

Charalampidis C., Fischer A., Kuhn M., Lambrecht A., Mayer C., Thomaidis K. and Weber M. (2018). Mass-Budget Anomalies and Geometry Signals of Three Austrian Glaciers. Front. Earth Sci. 6:218. doi: 10.3389/feart.2018.00218: URL: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2018.00218/full

Hartl, L., A. Fischer, M. Olefs, 2018. Analysis of past changes in wet bulb
temperature in relation to snow making conditions based on long term
observations Austria and Germany, Global and Planetary Change, 167,
August 2018, 123-136, ISSN 0921-8181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.05.011

Fischer, A., G. Patzelt, M. Achrainer, G. Groß, G. K. Lieb, A. Kellerer-Pirklbauer & G. Bendler, 2018. Gletscher im Wandel: 125 Jahre Gletschermessdienst des Alpenvereins. Springer Spektrum, 140 S. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-55540-8. http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783662555392.

Bohleber, P., Hoffmann, H., Kerch, J., Sold, L., and Fischer, A.: Investigating cold based summit glaciers through direct access to the glacier base: a case study constraining the maximum age of Chli Titlis glacier, Switzerland, The Cryosphere, 12, 401-412, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-401-2018, 2018

Farinotti, D., Brinkerhoff, D. J., Clarke, G. K. C., Fürst, J. J., Frey, H., Gantayat, P., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Girard, C., Huss, M., Leclercq, P. W., Linsbauer, A., Machguth, H., Martin, C., Maussion, F., Morlighem, M., Mosbeux, C., Pandit, A., Portmann, A., Rabatel, A., Ramsankaran, R., Reerink, T. J., Sanchez, O., Stentoft, P. A., Singh Kumari, S., van Pelt, W. J. J., Anderson, B., Benham, T., Binder, D., Dowdeswell, J. A., Fischer, A., Helfricht, K., Kutuzov, S., Lavrentiev, I., McNabb, R., Gudmundsson, G. H., Li, H., and Andreassen, L. M.: How accurate are estimates of glacier ice thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment, The Cryosphere, 11, 949-970, doi:10.5194/tc-11-949-2017, 2017.

Vincent, C., A. Fischer, C. Mayer, A. Bauder, S. P. Galos, M. Funk, E. Thibert, D. Six, L. Braun, and M. Huss, 2017. Common climatic signal from glaciers in the European Alps over the last 50 years, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 1376–1383, doi:10.1002/2016GL072094. [pdf]

Bohleber, P., Sold, L., Hardy, D. R., Schwikowski, M., Klenk, P., Fischer, A., Sirguey, P., Cullen, N. J., Potocki, M., Hoffmann, H., and Mayewski, P.: Ground-penetrating radar reveals ice thickness and undisturbed englacial layers at Kilimanjaro's Northern Ice Field, The Cryosphere, 11, 469-482, doi:10.5194/tc-11-469-2017, 2017. [pdf]

Fischer, A., K. Helfricht, H. Wiesenegger, L. Hartl, B. Seiser, M. Stocker-Waldhuber, 2016. Chapter 9 - What Future for Mountain Glaciers? Insights and Implications From Long-Term Monitoring in the Austrian Alps, In: Gregory B. Greenwood and J.F. Shroder, Editor(s), Developments in Earth Surface Processes, Elsevier, 21, 325-382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63787-1.00009-3. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444637871000093

Fischer, A., Helfricht, K., and Stocker-Waldhuber, M.: Local reduction of decadal glacier thickness loss through mass balance management in ski resorts, The Cryosphere, 10, 2941-2952, doi:10.5194/tc-10-2941-2016, 2016. http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/2941/2016/

Selected publications:

Stocker-Waldhuber, M., Fischer, A., Keller, L., Morche, D., Kuhn, M., 2016. Funnel-shaped surface depressions - Indicator or accelerant of rapid glacier disintegration? A case study in the Tyrolean Alps. Geomorphology, Special Issue: SEDIBUD. in press: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.11.006

Hartl, L., Fischer, A., Abermann, J. and Stocker-Waldhuber, M., 2016. Recent speed-up of an Alpine rock glacier: an updated chronology of the kinematics of Outer Hochebenkar rock glacier based on geodetic measurements. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 98, 129-141. DOI:10.1111/geoa.12127 [pdf]

Hartl, L., Fischer, A., Klug, C., and Nicholson, L., 2016. Can a simple Numerical Model Help to Fine-Tune the Analysis of Ground-Penetrating Radar Data? Hochebenkar Rock Glacier as a Case Study. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research: May 2016, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 377-393.

http://aaarjournal.org/doi/full/10.1657/AAAR0014-081

Michael Zemp et.al. Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century. Journal of Glaciology. August 3, 2015. doi: 10.3189/2015JoG15J017 [pdf]

Fischer, A., Seiser, B., Stocker Waldhuber, M., Mitterer, C., and Abermann, J., 2015. Tracing glacier changes in Austria from the Little Ice Age to the present using a lidar-based high-resolution glacier inventory in Austria, The Cryosphere, 9, 753-766, doi:10.5194/tc-9-753-2015. http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/753/2015/

Supplementary data are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.844988

Fischer, A. (2010) Glaciers and climate change: Interpretation of 50 years of direct mass balance of Hintereisferner, Global and Planetary Change 71, 1-2: 13-26. [link]

Olefs, M., A. Fischer,  and J. Lang (2010): Boundary conditions for artificial snow production in the Austrian Alps, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 49, 1096-1113. [link]

Olefs, M. and A. Fischer (2009): Comparative study of technical measures to reduce snow and ice ablation in Alpine glacier ski resorts, Cold regions science and technology, 52/3, 2008, 371-384, doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2007.04.021. [link]

Joerin, U. E., K. Nicolussi, A. Fischer, T. F. Stocker, C. Schlüchter (2008): Holocene optimum events inferred from subglacial sediments at Tschierva Glacier, Eastern Swiss Alps, Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 27, Issues 3-4, February 2008, pp. 337-350, ISSN 0277-3791, DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.016. [link]