Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 2: Analysis

Furbish, David Jon; Williams, Sarah G. W.; Roth, Danica L.; Doane, Tyler H.; Roering, Joshua J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-577-2021

Articles | Volume 9, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-577-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-577-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 3

Research article

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16 Jun 2021

Research article |

| 16 Jun 2021

Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes – Part 2: Analysis

David Jon Furbish, Sarah G. W. Williams, Danica L. Roth, Tyler H. Doane, and Joshua J. Roering

Data sets

Rarefied particle motions on hillslopes: 2. Analysis (Supplementary Material) D. J. Furbish and S. G. Williams https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/9742

Short summary

The generalized Pareto distribution of particle travel distances on steep hillslopes, as described in a companion paper (Furbish et al., 2021a), is entirely consistent with measurements of travel distances obtained from laboratory and field-based experiments, supplemented with high-speed imaging and audio recordings that highlight the effects of bumpety-bump particle motions. Particle size and shape, in concert with surface roughness, strongly influence particle energetics and deposition.