Implications for flow resistance and sediment transport Michael P. Lamb* , Fanny Brun and Brian M. Fuller Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125 *[email protected] Key Points: 1. Direct measurements of lift and drag forces were made on cobbles in steep flume experiments with shallow, rough flow over a planar bed 2. As flows shall...

Usually, various kinds of floods are distinguished based on the origin or on the main processes. Basically, the cause of the flood can be overflow over the banks of the main channel, direct runoff or failure of a levee or other structure. Flash floods are typical of steep beds and / or high intensity rainfalls. In mountain areas, they can be associated to debris flows or highly concentrated bed...

Avalanches, debris flows and other types of gravity-driven granular flows are a common hazard in mountainous regions. These regions often have human settlements in the lower parts of valleys, with human structures dangerously exposed to the destructive effects of these geophysical flows. Therefore a scientific effort has been made to understand, model and simulate geophysical granular flows. In...

1. introduction mountains are the main sources of turbulence and change in the shape of atmospheric flows, and they can cause airflow upward as well as clouds formation and rain through productive mechanisms such as upslope condensation and convection. they also have an important effect on regional and world precipitation turbulence (banta, 1990; barros & lettenmaier, 1994), and can cause sever...

‎in this work we introduce and study discrete time periodically correlated stable‎ ‎processes and multivariate stationary stable processes related to periodic and cyclic‎ ‎flows‎. ‎our study involves producing a spectral representation and a‎ ‎spectral identification for such processes‎. ‎we show that the third‎ ‎component of a periodically correlated stable process has a component related to a...

Debris flows triggered by glacier lake outbursts have repeatedly caused disasters in various high-mountain regions of the world. Accelerated change of glacial and periglacial environments due to atmospheric warming and increased anthropogenic development in most of these areas raise the need for an adequate hazard assessment and corresponding modelling. The purpose of this paper is to provide a...