Articles | Volume 22, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2433-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2433-2022
Research article
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25 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2022

Full-scale experiments to examine the role of deadwood in rockfall dynamics in forests

Adrian Ringenbach, Elia Stihl, Yves Bühler, Peter Bebi, Perry Bartelt, Andreas Rigling, Marc Christen, Guang Lu, Andreas Stoffel, Martin Kistler, Sandro Degonda, Kevin Simmler, Daniel Mader, and Andrin Caviezel

Data sets

Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava A. Caviezel, A. Ringenbach, Y. Bühler, A. Stoffel, K. Simmler, M. Kistler, S. Degonda, D. Mader, M. Christen, E. Stihl, and P. Bartelt https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.248

Model code and software

Experimental rockfall trilogy of Surava A. Caviezel, A. Ringenbach, Y. Bühler, A. Stoffel, K. Simmler, M. Kistler, S. Degonda, D. Mader, M. Christen, E. Stihl, and P. Bartelt https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.248

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Forests have a recognized braking effect on rockfalls. The impact of lying deadwood, however, is mainly neglected. We conducted 1 : 1-scale rockfall experiments in three different states of a spruce forest to fill this knowledge gap: the original forest, the forest including lying deadwood and the cleared area. The deposition points clearly show that deadwood has a protective effect. We reproduced those experimental results numerically, considering three-dimensional cones to be deadwood.
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