What is it about?
Example of extreme debris flow events, with the volume as the principal descriptor of their magnitude, may present in a given catchment different statistical behaviour. Continuous field observations (mainly importance of the bed erosion) show that extreme events are related to processes not visible most of the time. This processes are implemented in a simple "volume at the outlet" model.
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Perspectives
The model should be refined, but this paper give a framework that is coherent with field observations. However, at the time of writing these perspectives (8 years after publication) these first results are already applied with success into practice.
Dr Eric Bardou
DSM-consulting
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This page is a summary of: Debris flows as a factor of hillslope evolution controlled by a continuous or a pulse process?, Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2008, Geological Society,
DOI: 10.1144/sp296.5.
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