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We present a simple, vertically-explicit 2D model of river bank erosion that also takes the effect of sediment stabilization by plant roots into account. The model is solved in quasi-analytical form for an exemplary non-stationary hydrograph temporal signa ...

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Monitoring changes in temporary stream networks during rainfall events

Andrea Rinaldo, Jana Freiin von Freyberg, Izabela Bujak-Ozga, Ilja van Meerveld

Stream networks are important flow pathways along which water transports solutes, sediments and affects living communities. Field observations in headwater catchments have shown that the networks of actively flowing channels are not static, but rather expa ...

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Applicability of the landscape evolution model in the absence of rills

David Andrew Barry, Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Perona, Seifeddine Jomaa, Mohsen Cheraghi, Andrea Cimatoribus

Despite numerous applications of physically-based models for incised landscapes, their applicability for overland flow on unchanneled surfaces is not known. This work challenges a widely used landscape evolution model for the case of non-uniform rainfall a ...

2022

Different erosion and entrainment mechanisms in snow avalanches

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Erosion significantly affects the dynamics of gravity-driven mass flows. In snow avalanches, the snow cover can be substantially eroded but only partially entrained, however, there are very limited investigations to substantiate this difference. Here, we s ...

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International PhD Seminar Post-extraction territories in transition: Designing the socio-ecological transition in post carbon marginal spaces

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The Seminar proposes a European and transatlantic dialogue around the questions of the social and ecological transition (post-carbon) of marginal spaces, and territories of exploitation as the ancient coal territories on the two sides of the Atlantic. Th ...

2022

Channelization cascade in landscape evolution

Sara Bonetti

The hierarchy of channel networks in landscapes displays features that are characteristic of nonequilibrium complex systems. Here we show that a sequence of increasingly complex ridge and valley networks is produced by a system of partial differential equa ...

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The effect of accelerated soil erosion on hillslope morphology

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Intensive agricultural land use can have detrimental effects on landscape properties, greatly accelerating soil erosion, with consequent fertility loss and reduced agricultural potential. To quantify the effects of such erosional processes on hillslope mor ...

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Geomorphic work by gravity currents with varying initial conditions

Jessica Zordan

Gravity currents are density-driven flows that are able to transport high amounts of sediment and are responsible of great geomorphic changes. Moreover they can have severe repercussions on the environment since they are conveyors of substances, e.g. pollu ...

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Landscape Evolution Model at the Flume Scale

David Andrew Barry, Andrea Rinaldo, Mohsen Cheraghi

Landscape evolution models (LEMs) refer to a class of models that simulate key features of network structures at the catchment scale, along with runoff and sediment deposition. Such models can reproduce landscape features as captured by different (statisti ...

2017

Upstream-migrating bedforms in steep channels: an important contribution to sediment transport fluctuations?

Christophe Ancey, François Mettra

Possible causes of high sediment transport fluctuations observed in mountainous rivers are still not well understood. Several studies have linked these fluctuations with the presence of bedforms. However, upstream-migrating bedforms, that are similar in pr ...

2017

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