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Articles in peer reviewed journals

2025

  • Aristizábal, E. and O. Korup, 2025: Linking landslide patterns to transient landscapes in the northern Colombian Andes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130, e2024JF008027, doi.org/10.1029/2024JF008027
  • Lützow, N., Higman, B., Truffer, M., Bookhagen, B., Knuth, F., Korup, O., Hughes, K. E., Geertsema, M., Clague, J. J., and G. Veh, 2025: Larger lake outbursts despite glacier thinning at ice-dammed Desolation Lake, Alaska. The Cryosphere, 19, 1085–1102, doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1085-2025
  • Görüm, T., Bozkurt, D., Korup, O., İstanbulluoğlu, E., Lütfi Şen, Ö., Yılmaz, A., Karabacak, F., Lombardo, L., Guan, B. and H. Tanyas, 2025: The 2023 Türkiye-Syria earthquake disaster was exacerbated by an atmospheric river. Communications Earth and Environment, 6, 151. doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02111-9
  • Qi, M., Liu, S., Zhao, Z., Gao, Y., Xie, F., Veh, G., Xiao, L., Jing, J., Zhu, Y., and K. Wu, 2025: A mathematical model to improve water storage of glacial lake prediction towards addressing glacial lake outburst floods. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, 969–982, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-969-2025
  • Veh, G., Wang, B.G., Zirzow, A., Schmidt, C., Lützow, N., Steppat, F., Zhang, G., Vogel, K., Geertsema, M., Clague, J.J., and O. Korup, 2025: Progressively smaller outbursts despite worldwide growth in lake area. Nature Water, doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00388-w
  • Sattar, A., Cook, K. L., Rai, S. K., Berthier, E., Allen, S., Rinzin, S., Van Wyk de Vries, M., Haeberli, W., Kushwaha, P., Shugar, D. H., Emmer, A., Haritashya, U. K., Frey, H., Rao, P., Gurudin, K. S. K., Rai, P., Rajak, R., Hossain, F., Huggel, C., Mergili, M., Azam, Mohd. F., Gascoin, S., Carrivick, J. L., Bell, L. E., Ranjan, R. K., Rashid, I., Kulkarni, Anil. V., Petley, D., Schwanghart, W., Watson, C. S., Islam, N., Gupta, M. D., Lane, S. N., and S. Y. Bhat,  2025: The Sikkim flood of October 2023: Drivers, causes and impacts of a multihazard cascade, Science, 0, eads2659, doi.org/10.1126/science.ads2659
  • Gnann, S., Baldwin, J., Cuthbert, M., Gleeson, T., Schwanghart, W., and T. Wagener, 2025: The influence of topography on the global terrestrial water cycle. Reviews of Geophysics, 63, 1, e2023RG000810, doi.org/10.1029/2023RG000810
     

2024

  • Korup, O., Luna, L. V., and J. V. Ferrer, 2025 : Size scaling of large landslides from incomplete inventories. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24, 3815–3832, doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3815-2024
  • Skålevåg, A., Korup, O., and A. Bronstert, 2024: Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28, 4771–4796, doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4771-2024
  • Ferrer, J. V., Samprogna Mohor, G., Dewitte, O., Pánek, T., Reyes‐Carmona, C., Handwerger, A. L., ... and O. Korup, 2024: Human settlement pressure drives slow‐moving landslide exposure. Earth's Future, 12(9), e2024EF004830, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004830
  • Zhang, G., Carrivick, J. L., Emmer, A., Shugar, D. H., Veh, G., Wang, X., Labedz, C., Mergili, M., Mölg, N., Huss, M., Allen, S., Sugiyama, S., and N. Lützow, 2024: Global changes and impacts of glacial lakes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 5, 447-462, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00554-w
  • Vogel, K., Sieg, T., Veh, G., Fiedler, B., Moran, T., Peter, M., Rottler, E., and A. Bronstert, 2024: Natural Hazards in a Changing World: Methods for Analysing Trends and Non-linear Changes. Earth's Future, 12(5), e2023EF003553, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003553
  • Tolorza, V., Mohr, C. H., Zambrano-Bigiarini, M., Sotomayor, B., Poblete-Caballero, D., Carretier, S., Galleguillos, M., and O. Seguel, 2024: Exotic tree plantations in the Chilean Coastal Range: balancing the effects of discrete disturbances, connectivity, and a persistent drought on catchment erosion, Earth Surface Dynamics, 12, 841–861, doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-841-2024
  • Mohr, C. H., Dietze, M., Tolorza, V., Gonzalez, E., Sotomayor, B., Iroume, A., Gilfert, S., and F. Tautz, 2024: Ideas and perspectives: Sensing energy and matter fluxes in a biota-dominated Patagonian landscape through environmental seismology – introducing the Pumalín Critical Zone Observatory, Biogeosciences, 21, 1583–1599, doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-1583-2024
  • Wang, X., Zhang, G., Veh, G., Sattar, A., Wang, W.,  Allen, S.,  Bolch, T., Peng, M, and F. Xu, 2024: Reconstructing glacial lake outburst floods in the Poiqu River basin, central Himalaya. Geomorphology, 449, 109063, doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109063

2023

  • Patton, A. I., Luna, L. V., Roering, J. J., Jacobs, A., Korup, O., and B. B. Mirus, 2023: Landslide initiation thresholds in data-sparse regions: application to landslide early warning criteria in Sitka, Alaska, USA. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 23, 3261–3284, doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-3261-2023
  • Arboleda‐Zapata, M., Guillemoteau, J., Lucía, A., Eberle, J., Tronicke, J., and O. Korup, 2023: Tracing past extreme floods on an alluvial fan using geophysical surveying. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5695
  • Peng, M., Wang, X., Zhang, G., Veh, G., Sattar, A., Chen, W., and S. Allen, 2023: Cascading hazards from two recent glacial lake outburst floods in the Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology, 626, 130155, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130155
  • Pfau, M., Veh, G., and W. Schwanghart, 2023: Cast shadows reveal changes in glacier surface elevation. The Cryosphere, 17, 8, 3535-3551, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3535-2023
  • Andermann, C., Nepal, S., Maharjan, S.B., Schwanghart, W., Veh, G., Azam, M.F., Wagnon, P., and F. Brun, 2023: Glaciers and Glacier Lake Outburst Floods in the Himalayas. In: Himalaya, dynamics of a giant 3: Current Activity of the Himalayan Range, Wiley, 57-83, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394228683.ch3
  • Lützow, N., Veh, G., and O. Korup, 2023: A global database of historic glacier lake outburst floods. Earth System Science Data, 15, 2983–3000, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2983-2023
  • Zhang, G., Bolch, T., Yao, T., Wang, M., Chen, W., Wang, W., Rounce, D.R., Veh, G., King, O., and S. Allen, 2023: Underestimated glacier mass loss in the Himalayas. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01150-1
  • Veh, G., Lützow, N., Tamm, J., Luna, L.V., Hugonnet, R., Vogel, K., Geertsema, M., Clague, J.J., and O. Korup, 2023: Less extreme and earlier outbursts from ice-dammed lakes since 1900. Nature, 614, 701–707, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05642-9
  • Pacheco Quevedo, R., Velastegui-Montoya, A., Montalván-Burbano, N., Morante-Carballo, F., Korup, O., and C. Daleles Rennó, 2023: Land use and land cover as a conditioning factor in landslide susceptibility: a literature review. Landslides, 20, 967–982. doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-02020-4
  • Fisher, G.B., Luna, L.V., Amidon, W.H. et al., 2023: Milankovitch-paced erosion in the southern Central Andes, Nature Communications 14, 424, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36022-0
  • Fischer, M., Lehnigk, K., Lützow, N., Brettin, J., Veh, G., Larsen, I.J., Korup, O. and A. Walz, 2023: Himalayan hazard cascades – Modern and Medieval outburst floods in Pokhara, Nepal, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi.org/10.1002/esp.5539

2022

  • Arboleda-Zapata, M., Angelopoulos, M., Overduin, P. P., Grosse, G., Jones, B. M., and J. Tronicke, 2022: Exploring the capabilities of electrical resistivity tomography to study subsea permafrost, The Cryosphere, 16, 4423–4445, doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4423-2022
  • Arboleda-Zapata, M., Guillemoteau, J., and J. Tronicke, 2022: A comprehensive workflow to analyze ensembles of globally inverted 2D electrical resistivity models, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 196, 104512, doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2021.104512
  • Fischer, M., Brettin, J., Roessner, S., Walz, A., Fort, M., and O. Korup, 2022: Rare flood scenarios for a rapidly growing high-mountain city: Pokhara, Nepal, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22, 3105–3123, doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3105-2022
  • Luna, L. and O. Korup, 2022: Seasonal landslide activity lags annual precipitation pattern in the Pacific Northwest, Geophysical Research Letters, e2022GL098506. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098506
  • Huggel, C., Korup, O. and S. Gruber, 2022: 9.33 - Landslide Hazards and Climate Change in High Mountains. In: Treatise on Geomorphology (Second Edition), edited by John (Jack) F. Shroder, Academic Press, 798-814, ISBN 9780128182352, doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00038-9
  • Schönfeldt, E., Winocur, D., Pánek, T. and O. Korup, 2022: Deep learning reveals one of Earth's largest landslide terrain in Patagonia,
    Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 593, 117642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117642
  • Emmer, A., Allen, S. K., Carey, M., Frey, H., Huggel, C., Korup, O., Mergili, M., Sattar, A., Veh, G., Chen, T. Y., Cook, S. J., Correas-Gonzalez, M., Das, S., Diaz Moreno, A., Drenkhan, F., Fischer, M., Immerzeel, W. W., Izagirre, E., Joshi, R. C., Kougkoulos, I., Kuyakanon Knapp, R., Li, D., Majeed, U., Matti, S., Moulton, H., Nick, F., Piroton, V., Rashid, I., Reza, M., Ribeiro de Figueiredo, A., Riveros, C., Shrestha, F., Shrestha, M., Steiner, J., Walker-Crawford, N., Wood, J. L., and J. C. Yde, 2022: Progress and challenges in glacial lake outburst flood research (2017–2021): a research community perspective, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22, 3041–3061, doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-3041-2022
  • Pánek, T., Břežný, M., Harrison, S., Schönfeldt, E. and D. Winocur, 2022: Large landslides cluster at the margin of a deglaciated mountain belt. Scientific Reports, 12, 5658. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09357-9
  • Veh, G., Lützow, N., Kharlamova, V., Petrakov, D., Hugonnet, R., and O. Korup, 2022: Trends, breaks, and biases in the frequency of reported glacier lake outburst floods. Earth's Future, 10, e2021EF002426. doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002426
  • Korup, O., and G. Wang,  2022: Multiple landslide-damming episodes. In: Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (pp. 249-268). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818464-6.00014-7 

2021

  • Parra, E., Mohr, C. H., and O. Korup, 2021: Predicting Patagonian landslides: Roles of forest cover and wind speed. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL095224. doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095224
  • Fekete, H., Kuramochi, T., Roelfsema, M., Elzen, M. den, Forsell, N., Höhne, N., Luna, L., Hans, F., Sterl, S., Olivier, J., van Soest, H., Frank, S., and M. Gusti, 2021: A review of successful climate change mitigation policies in major emitting economies and the potential of global replication. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 137, 110602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.110602
  • Stirling, M. W., Abbott, E. R., Rood, D. H., McVerry, G. H., Abrahamson, N. A., Barrell, D. J. A., Huso, R., Litchfield, N. J., Luna, L., Rhoades, D. A., Silvester, P., Van Dissen, R. J., Van Houtte, C., and A. Zondervan, 2021: First Use of Fragile Geologic Features to Set the Design Motions for a Major Existing Engineered Structure. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 111(5), 2673–2695. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210026
  • Mohr, C. H., Manga, M., Helle, G., Heinrich, I., Giese, L., and O. Korup, 2021: Trees talk tremor–Wood anatomy and content reveal contrasting tree‐growth responses to earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 17 p., e2021JG006385
  • Emmer, A., Mergili, M., and G.  Veh, 2021: Glacial lake outburst floods: geomorphological agents and hazardous phenomena, Treatise on Geomorphology, 18 p., doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00057-2
  • Fischer, M., Korup, O., Veh, G., and A. Walz., 2021: Controls of outbursts of Himalayan moraine-dammed lakes. The Cryosphere, 15, 4145–4163, doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4145-2021
  • Korup, O., Mohr, C. H., and M. M. Manga, 2021: Bayesian detection of streamflow response to earthquakes. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028874. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028874
  • Mohor, G. S., Thieken, A. H., and O. Korup, 2021: Residential flood loss estimated from Bayesian multilevel models. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21, 1599–1614, doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1599-2021
  • Kemter, M., Fischer, M., Luna, L. V., Schönfeldt, E., Vogel, J., Banerjee, A., Korup, O., and K.Thonike , 2021: Cascading hazards in the aftermath of Australia's 2019/2020 Black Summer wildfires. Earth's Future, 9, e2020EF001884. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001884

2020

  • Pánek, T., Schönfeldt, E., Winocur, D., Břežný, M., Šilhán, K., Chalupa, V., & Korup, O., 2020: Moraines and marls: Giant landslides of the Lago Pueyrredón valley in Patagonia, Argentina. Quaternary Science Reviews, 248, 106598, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106598
  • Korup, O., 2020: Bayesian Geomorphology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4995
  • Ozturk, U., Pittore, M., Behling, R., Roessner, S., Andreani, L., & Korup, O., 2020: How robust are landslide susceptibility estimates?. Landslides, 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-01485-5
  • Schönfeldt, E., Pánek, T., Winocur, D., Šilhán, K., & Korup, O., 2020: Postglacial Patagonian mass movement: From rotational slides and spreads to earthflows. Geomorphology, 367, 107316, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107316
  • Korup, O., Drewes, J., Scatena, F.N., Gupta, A., 2020: Tropical mountain rivers. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12465-0 
  • Veh, G., Korup, O., Walz, A., 2020: Hazard from Himalayan glacier lake outburst floods. PNAS, 117, 2, 907-912, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914898117

2019

  • Fan, X., Scaringi, G., Korup, O., West, A. J., van Westen, C. J., Tanyas, H., et al., 2019. Earthquake‐induced chains of geologic hazards: Patterns, mechanisms, and impacts. Reviews of Geophysics, 57, 421–503, doi.org/10.1029/2018RG000626
  • Tolorza, V., Mohr, C.H., Carretier, S., Serey, A., Sepúlveda, S.A., Tapia, J., Pinto, L., 2019. Suspended sediments in Chilean rivers reveal low post‐seismic erosion after the Maule earthquake (Mw 8.8) during a severe drought. JGR Earth Surface, doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004766
  • von Specht, S., Ozturk, U., Veh, G., Cotton, F., Korup, O., 2019. Effects of finite source rupture on landslide triggering: the 2016 Mw 7.1 Kumamoto earthquake. Solid Earth, 10, 463-486, doi.org/10.5194/se-10-463-2019
  • Korup, O., Seidemann, J., Mohr, C., 2019. Increased landslide activity on forested hillslopes following two recent volcanic eruptions in Chile. Nature Geoscience, 12, 284-289, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0315-9
  • Veh, G., Korup, O., von Specht, S., Roessner, S., Walz, A., 2019. Unchanged frequency of moraine-dammed outburst floods in the Himalaya. Nature Climate Change, 9, 379-383, doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0437-5

2018

  • Blöthe, J.H., Rosenwinkel, S., Höser, T., Korup, O., 2018. Rock-glacier dams in High Asia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.4532.
  • Stolle, A., Schwanghart, W., Andermann, C., Bernhardt, A., Fort, M., Jansen, J.J., Wittmann, H., Merchel, S., Rugel, G., Adhikari, B.R., Korup, O., 2018. Protracted river response to medieval earthquakes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.4517.
  • Drewes, J., Moreiras, S., Korup, O., 2018. Permafrost activity and atmospheric warming in the Argentinian Andes. Geomorphology 323, 13–24.
  • Mohr, C. H., Manga, M., Wald, D., 2018. Stronger peak ground motion, beyond the threshold to initiate a response, does not lead to larger stream discharge responses to earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 6523-6531. 
  • Schwanghart, W., Ryan, M., Korup, O., 2018. Topographic and seismic constraints on the vulnerability of Himalayan hydropower. Geophysical Research Letters 45, doi:10.1029/2018GL079173.
  • Dosseto, T., May, J.H., Choi, J.H., Swander, Z.J., Fink, D., Korup, O., Hesse, P., Singh, T., Mifsud, C., Srivastava, P., 2018. Late Quaternary fluvial incision and aggradation in the lesser Himalaya, India. Quaternary Science Reviews 197, 112–128.
  • Veh, G., Korup, O., Roessner, S., Walz, A., 2018. Detecting Himalayan glacial lake outburst floods from Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of the Environment 207, 84–97.
  • Ozturk, U., Marwan, N., von Specht, S., Korup, O., Jensen, J., 2018. A new centennial sea-level record for Antalya, Eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 123, 4503–4517.
  • Pánek, T., Korup, O., Lenart, J., Hradecky, J., Brezny, M. 2018. Giant landslides in the foreland of the Patagonia icesheet. Quaternary Science Reviews 194, 39–54.
  • Ozturk, U., Wendi, D., Crisologo, I., Riemer, A., Agarwal, A., Vogel, K., lopéz-Tarazón, J.A., Korup, O., 2018. Rare flash floods and debris flows in Southern Germany. Science of the Total Environment 626, 941–952.
  • Ozturk, U., Marwan, N., Korup, O., Saito, H., Agarwal, A., Grossman, M. J., Zaiki, M., Kurths, J., 2018. Complex networks for tracking extreme rainfall during typhoons. Chaos 28, 75301, doi:10.1063/1.5004480.