This session seeks quantitative contributions on the hydro-geomorphic functioning of mountain channels that involve fluvial and/or debris-flow transport. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: sediment entrainment conditions; site-specific to regional compilations of suspended, bedload, debris-flow, and landslide transport; downstream hydraulic geometry; channel morphology and sediment transport in relation to hillslope-channel coupling/decoupling; in-channel transport-storage relations; lithologic and glacially-conditioned controls on fluvial and/or debris-flow sediment flux; post-debris flow channel recovery; wood recruitment and transport; and fluvial bedrock erosion.
Studies that integrate multiple techniques of data collection and analysis (e.g., field-based measurements, fume experiment, remotely-sensed proxies, GIS-based analysis, and modelling efforts) across different temporal scales (e.g., through real-time monitoring, tracers, sedimentologic reconstructions, or cosmogenic nuclides) are particularly welcome.
Invited speakers:
John Pitlick (University of Colorado) - Linkages between sediment supply and channel morphology in gravel-bed river systems.
Johannes Hubl (BOKU) - Morphodynamics of debris flow-dominated channels;
Marteen Lupker (ETH) - Himalayan sediment fluxes and the floodplain transfer function;
Peter Molnar (ETH) - Probabilistic approaches to the modelling of fluvial processes.