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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-505-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-505-2020
Research article
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21 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 21 Feb 2020

Back calculation of the 2017 Piz Cengalo–Bondo landslide cascade with r.avaflow: what we can do and what we can learn

Martin Mergili, Michel Jaboyedoff, José Pullarello, and Shiva P. Pudasaini

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Computer simulations of complex landslide processes in mountain areas are important for informing risk management but are at the same time challenging in terms of parameterization and physical and numerical model implementation. Using the tool r.avaflow, we highlight the progress and the challenges with regard to such simulations on the example of the Piz Cengalo–Bondo landslide cascade in Switzerland, which started as an initial rockslide–rockfall and finally evolved into a debris flow.
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