MeetingOfInterest:Meeting-089
23 - 24 October 2013
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The Workshop aims at presenting innovative hydrological research applied to landslide studies to improve the understanding of the spatio-temporal patterns of slope movement mechanisms induced by precipitations. Rain and snowmelt water infiltration, leading to pore water pressure increase and/or matric suction decrease, is indeed among the most common triggers of landslides. Scientific knowledge about fundamental physical processes affecting infiltration, such as macropore and fissure flow, water repellency, soil structure, soil-plant interactions, as well as about the effects of land use practices (e.g., deforestation, terracing, grazing, etc…), has strongly improved in recent years, but their incorporation into larger scale hydrological models is still incomplete and application in landslide prediction limited.
The main session will be devoted to the hydrologic response of slopes, that will be examined through the results of tests on small-scale physical models, the data from the monitoring of well-instrumented natural slopes and numerical analyses carried out using mathematical models. Renowned researchers from several countries will contribute with their knowledge and experience and the meeting will include wide and lively discussions. On the second day, a Round robin test on landslide hydrological modeling will take place: participating researchers will be engaged in a competition aimed at checking whether present knowledge, and what type of knowledge, allows to successfully perform class A predictions.
