Parameterization of rockfall source areas and magnitudes with ecological recorders: When disturbances in trees serve the calibration and validation of simulation runs

Geomorphology

Volumn 202, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-42

  Corona, Christophe ^a   Trappmann, Daniel ^a   Stoffel, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D simulation model; Dendrogeomorphology; Forest rockfall interactions; Parameterization; Swiss Alps; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MONTANE FOREST; PARAMETERIZATION; ROCKFALL; TALUS; TREE; TREE RING;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84886588642     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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