This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting an abstract to EGU 2025 is fast approaching. Contribution about debris flow research are welcome at the following session:
Title: Debris flows: advances in mechanics, monitoring, modelling and risk management
Deadline: 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET
Link for submission: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/abstractsubmission/52293
Conveners: A. Leonardi, J. Hirschberg, M. Hürlimann, S. Li, S. Savi
Here the session description summary:
Debris flows are among the most dangerous natural hazards, threatening people and infrastructure in mountainous and volcanic regions. Understanding their initiation, dynamics, and associated erosion/deposition processes is critical for hazard assessment, land-use planning, mitigation design, and early-warning systems. Climate change may heighten these hazards, requiring further research into its impacts.
Efforts to study debris flows and lahars are increasing, but challenges in measuring their initiation and propagation have spurred a range of laboratory experiments and monitoring studies. Improving instrumental observations is crucial for accurate modelling and hazard mapping. Advances in sensor networks, remote sensing, AI, and data-driven models provide new opportunities for understanding and managing these hazards.
This session invites scientists, practitioners, and decision-makers to share their work on field studies, debris-flow mechanics, experiments, modelling, monitoring, climate change impacts, hazard assessment, and early warning systems.