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

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 catchment, Switzerland, was incorporated into the existing RAMMS debris-flow model, which solves the 2-D shallow-water equ...

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Main Authors: F. Frank, B. W. McArdell, C. Huggel, A. Vieli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2015-11-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/15/2569/2015/nhess-15-2569-2015.pdf