Landslide prediction, monitoring and early warning: a concise review of state-of-the-art

BG Chae, HJ Park, F Catani, A Simoni, M Berti - Geosciences Journal, 2017 - Springer
Landslide is one of the repeated geological hazards during rainy season, which causes
fatalities, damage to property and economic losses in Korea. Landslides are responsible for …

Management of ecosystem services in mountain forests: Review of indicators and value functions for model based multi-criteria decision analysis

C Blattert, R Lemm, O Thees, MJ Lexer… - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
The main ecosystem services (ES) central European mountain forests provide are:
protection against gravitational hazards, timber production, recreation, biodiversity …

Simulation of rockfall trajectories with consideration of rock shape

RI Leine, A Schweizer, M Christen, J Glover… - Multibody System …, 2014 - Springer
The aim of the paper is to develop a fully 3D simulation technique for rockfall dynamics
taking rock shape into account and using the state-of-the-art methods of multibody dynamics …

The importance of entrainment and bulking on debris flow runout modeling: examples from the Swiss Alps

F Frank, BW McArdell, C Huggel… - Natural Hazards and …, 2015 - nhess.copernicus.org
This study describes an investigation of channel-bed entrainment of sediment by debris
flows. An entrainment model, developed using field data from debris flows at the Illgraben …

A scalable parallel computing SPH framework for predictions of geophysical granular flows

E Yang, HH Bui, H De Sterck, GD Nguyen… - Computers and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a parallel computing Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
framework for geophysical granular flows scalable on large CPU clusters. The framework is …

Load model for designing flexible steel barriers for debris flow mitigation

C Wendeler, A Volkwein, BW McArdell… - Canadian …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
Light-weight flexible steel net barriers catch coarse debris, but let some of the fine material
and water pass through the net. They are difficult to design so that they can withstand the …

Application of unmanned aerial vehicle data and discrete fracture network models for improved rockfall simulations

M Francioni, F Antonaci, N Sciarra, C Robiati… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this research, we present a new approach to define the distribution of block volumes
during rockfall simulations. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are utilized to generate high …

Glacier recession and the changing rockfall hazard: Implications for glacier tourism

H Purdie, C Gomez, S Espiner - New Zealand Geographer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid recession and thinning of mountain glaciers worldwide are resulting in changes to
glacier surface morphology, which are exacerbated by increased rockfall and debris …

Debris-flow modeling at Meretschibach and Bondasca catchments, Switzerland: sensitivity testing of field-data-based entrainment model

F Frank, BW McArdell, N Oggier… - … hazards and earth …, 2017 - nhess.copernicus.org
Debris-flow volumes can increase due to the incorporation of sediment into the flow as a
consequence of channel-bed erosion along the flow path. This study describes a sensitivity …

Reconstruction and characterisation of past and the most recent slope failure events at the 2021 rock-ice avalanche site in Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

A Bhardwaj, L Sam - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Frequent ice avalanche events are being reported across the globe in recent years. On the 7
February 2021, a flash flood triggered by a rock-ice avalanche with an unusually long runout …