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From: Lucia Capra <lcapra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: EGU 2018 Session "Fast flow-like landslides in alpine and volcanic environment. Advances on monitoring, modelling and risk management"
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the renovated session on Fast-moving flow-like landslides of the EGU General Assembly 2018 that will take place in Vienna from 08–13 April 2018.
NH3.8/GI3.19/SSS13.49 - Fast flow-like landslides in alpine and volcanic environment. Advances on monitoring, modelling and risk management (co-organized)
TRAVEL SUPPORT
Participants, who wish to apply for travel support, must submit an abstract by 1 December 2017. For details see https://www.egu2018.eu/roland_schlich_travel_support.html
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 13:00 CET: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26693
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Debris flows, debris floods and flash floods are among the most dangerous natural hazards that threaten people and infrastructures in mountainous areas. Very similar phenomena occur in volcanic environments where the Indonesian term lahar is used to name them. The quantification of transported sediment by these flow processes, along with their frequency and features (duration, velocity, depth, etc.) is of paramount importance for hazard assessment, land-use planning and design of mitigation measures, including early warning systems.
Documentation and monitoring of those phenomena requires scientists to adopt a variety of methods. The difficulties to detect the initiation and the propagation of these processes have progressively prompted research into a wide variety of monitoring technologies. Nowadays, the combination of distributed sensor networks and remote sensing techniques represent a unique opportunity to gather direct observations. A growing number of scientists with diverse backgrounds are dealing with the monitoring of processes ranging from intense bedload transport to large lahars. However, there is a need of improving quality and quantity of both documentation procedures and instrumental observations that would provide knowledge and ideas for new and accurate models. Reliable new models would allow to better focus what to observe in the field and to improve the effectiveness of mitigation measures.
Scientists working in the fields of hazard mapping, modelling, monitoring and early warning of fast flow-like landslides are invited to present their recent advancements in research and feedback from practitioners and decision makers.
We look forward to receiving your contribution!
The session conveners
Velio Coviello
Marcel Hürlimann
Massimo Arattano
Lucia Capra
Jonathan Procter
Luca Franzi
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