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FS 2.158

SedInOut: Sediment availability assessment linked to climate change

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Session status: Accepted
Content last updated: 2025-07-09 21:33:47
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Details

  • Full Title

    FS 2.158: SedInOut: Development of a risk-management methodology through the assessment of sediment availability in high-alpine settings that are susceptible to climate changes
  • Scheduled

    TBA
  • Convener

  • Co-Convener(s)

    Brardinoni, Francesco ; and Minotti, Federica
  • Thematic Focus

    Hazards
  • Keywords

    sediment availability, sediment transport, climate change, deglaciation, mass-wasting

Description

Mass wasting is a threat to residential areas and infrastructure, causing widespread destabilisation in alpine stream channels, while being in relation with ongoing climatic changes. Although hillslope sediment supply represents a critical factor for stream channel stability during heavy rainfalls, there is a substantial lack of procedures for quantifying sediment availability and composition. Moreover, there is a general absence of validated empirical models for estimating hillslope sediment flux to the drainage network as a function of meteorological forcing. SedInOut, through a joint international effort, aims to develop methodologies for the quantification and characterization of hillslope sediment, while targeting for a sustainable land management that values geo-risk mitigation and sediment recycling.

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