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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1489-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1489-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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03 Sep 2019
Research article |
| 03 Sep 2019
| 03 Sep 2019
Spatio-temporal dynamics of sediment transfer systems in landslide-prone Alpine catchments
François Clapuyt
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth and Life Institute, Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth
and Climate Research, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Pasteur, 3
Bte L4.03.08, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Veerle Vanacker
Earth and Life Institute, Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth
and Climate Research, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Pasteur, 3
Bte L4.03.08, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Marcus Christl
Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, 8093
Zurich, Switzerland
Kristof Van Oost
Earth and Life Institute, Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth
and Climate Research, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Pasteur, 3
Bte L4.03.08, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS, Rue d'Egmont, 5, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Fritz Schlunegger
Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern, Baltzerstrasse 1+3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- A Small Landslide as a Big Lesson: Drones and GIS for Monitoring and Teaching Slope Instability B. Zaragozí et al.
- The degradation and detection of environmental signals in sediment transport systems C. Griffin et al.
- Stratigraphy of late Quaternary mountain slope landforms and deposits in southern Africa and their significance for the dynamics of mountain sediment systems J. Knight & S. Grab
- Modeling landslide activity and sediment connectivity after eruptions: Insights from the Blanco River (Chile) A. Paredes et al.
- Investigating Sediment Dynamics in a Landslide-Dominated Catchment by Modeling Landslide Area and Fluvial Sediment Export T. Teng et al.
- Lateral sediment connectivity of landslides occurred under a heavy rainstorm and its influence on sediment yield of slope-channel cascade on the Loess Plateau X. Yan et al.
- Spatial variation in specific sediment yield along the Peruvian western Andes M. Rosas et al.
- Quantifying erosion in a pre-Alpine catchment at high resolution with concentrations of cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al, and 14C C. Schmidt et al.
- Deglaciation controls on sediment yield: Towards capturing spatio-temporal variability J. Carrivick & F. Tweed
- Modelling localized sources of sediment in mountain catchments for provenance studies G. Battista et al.
- Massive sediment pulses triggered by a multi-stage 130 000 m3 alpine cliff fall (Hochvogel, DE–AT) N. Barbosa et al.
- Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps R. Delunel et al.
- Remote Sensing of Landslide-Generated Sediment Plumes, Peace River, British Columbia K. Hughes et al.
- Hydro-morphological alteration and related effects on fish habitat induced by sediment management in a regulated Alpine river L. Servanzi et al.
- Topographic and climatic controls on decadal-scale catchment-basin erosion rates in the northern Chinese Tian Shan X. Guan et al.
- Modelling impacts of spatially variable erosion drivers on suspended sediment dynamics G. Battista et al.
- Interconnected impacts of water resource management and climate change on microplastic pollution and riverine biocoenosis: A review by freshwater ecologists S. Quadroni et al.
- Bagging-based machine learning algorithms for landslide susceptibility modeling T. Zhang et al.
- Restoring morphodynamics downstream from Alpine dams: Development of a geomorphological version of the serial discontinuity concept S. Lane et al.
- Generating multi-temporal landslide inventories through a general deep transfer learning strategy using HR EO data K. Bhuyan et al.
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Short summary
Using state-of-the-art geomorphic techniques, we quantified a 2-order of magnitude discrepancy between annual, decadal, and millennial sediment fluxes of a landslide-affected mountainous river catchment in the Swiss Alps. Our results illustrate that the impact of a single sediment pulse is strongly attenuated at larger spatial and temporal scales by sediment transport. The accumulation of multiple sediment pulses has rather a measurable impact on the regional pattern of sediment fluxes.
Using state-of-the-art geomorphic techniques, we quantified a 2-order of magnitude discrepancy...
