Spatio-temporal dynamics of sediment transfer systems in landslide-prone Alpine catchments

Clapuyt, François; Vanacker, Veerle; Christl, Marcus; Van Oost, Kristof; Schlunegger, Fritz

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1489-2019

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1489-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1489-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 5

Research article

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03 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 03 Sep 2019

Spatio-temporal dynamics of sediment transfer systems in landslide-prone Alpine catchments

François Clapuyt, Veerle Vanacker, Marcus Christl, Kristof Van Oost, and Fritz Schlunegger

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Final revised paper (published on 03 Sep 2019)
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RC1: 'review', Luca C Malatesta, 20 Feb 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', François Clapuyt, 16 May 2019
RC2: 'Review of Clapuyt et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', François Clapuyt, 16 May 2019

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AR by François Clapuyt on behalf of the Authors (20 Jul 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (26 Jul 2019) by Arjen Stroeven

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Aug 2019) by Arjen Stroeven

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Aug 2019) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)

AR by François Clapuyt on behalf of the Authors (09 Aug 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Using state-of-the-art geomorphic techniques, we quantified a 2-order of magnitude discrepancy between annual, decadal, and millennial sediment fluxes of a landslide-affected mountainous river catchment in the Swiss Alps. Our results illustrate that the impact of a single sediment pulse is strongly attenuated at larger spatial and temporal scales by sediment transport. The accumulation of multiple sediment pulses has rather a measurable impact on the regional pattern of sediment fluxes.