05 Dec 2024
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Channel concavity controls planform complexity of branching drainage networks
Liran Goren and Eitan Shelef
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1347–1369, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1347-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1347-2024, 2024 | 3,619 views
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04 Nov 2024
Short Communication: Numerically simulated time to steady state is not a reliable measure of landscape response time
Nicole M. Gasparini, Adam M. Forte, and Katherine R. Barnhart
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1227–1242, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1227-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1227-2024, 2024 | 3,102 views
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08 Nov 2024
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Testing floc settling velocity models in rivers and freshwater wetlands
Justin A. Nghiem, Gen K. Li, Joshua P. Harringmeyer, Gerard Salter, Cédric G. Fichot, Luca Cortese, and Michael P. Lamb
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1267–1294, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1267-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1267-2024, 2024 | 2,398 views
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24 Jun 2025
The glacial paleolandscapes of Southern Africa: the legacy of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
Pierre Dietrich, François Guillocheau, Guilhem A. Douillet, Neil P. Griffis, Guillaume Baby, Daniel P. Le Héron, Laurie Barrier, Maximilien Mathian, Isabel P. Montañez, Cécile Robin, Thomas Gyomlai, Christoph Kettler, and Axel Hofmann
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 495–529, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-495-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-495-2025, 2025 | 2,376 views
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07 Aug 2025
The roles of surface processes in porphyry copper deposit preservation
Beatriz Hadler Boggiani, Tristan Salles, Claire Mallard, and Nicholas Atwood
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 683–704, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-683-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-683-2025, 2025 | 2,127 views
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08 Jul 2025
Sediment aggradation rates in Himalayan rivers revealed through the InSAR differential residual topographic phase
Jingqiu Huang and Hugh D. Sinclair
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 531–547, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-531-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-531-2025, 2025 | 2,048 views
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16 Jan 2025
Massive permafrost rock slide under a warming polythermal glacier deciphered through mechanical modeling (Bliggspitze, Austria)
Felix Pfluger, Samuel Weber, Joseph Steinhauser, Christian Zangerl, Christine Fey, Johannes Fürst, and Michael Krautblatter
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 41–70, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-41-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-41-2025, 2025 | 2,019 views
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13 May 2025
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Surficial sediment remobilization by shear between sediment and water above tsunamigenic megathrust ruptures: experimental study
Chloé Seibert, Cecilia McHugh, Chris Paola, Leonardo Seeber, and James Tucker
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 341–348, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-341-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-341-2025, 2025 | 2,014 views
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03 Dec 2024
Knickpoints and fixed points: the evolution of fluvial morphology under the combined effect of fault uplift and dam obstruction on a soft bedrock river
Hung-En Chen, Yen-Yu Chiu, Chih-Yuan Cheng, and Su-Chin Chen
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1329–1346, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1329-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1329-2024, 2024 | 1,922 views
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25 Nov 2024
GraphFlood 1.0: an efficient algorithm to approximate 2D hydrodynamics for landscape evolution models
Boris Gailleton, Philippe Steer, Philippe Davy, Wolfgang Schwanghart, and Thomas Bernard
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1295–1313, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1295-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1295-2024, 2024 | 1,898 views
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03 Feb 2025
A numerical model for duricrust formation by water table fluctuations
Caroline Fenske, Jean Braun, François Guillocheau, and Cécile Robin
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 119–146, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-119-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-119-2025, 2025 | 1,824 views
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03 Jun 2025
Short communication: Multiscale topographic complexity analysis with pyTopoComplexity
Larry Syu-Heng Lai, Adam M. Booth, Alison R. Duvall, and Erich Herzig
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 417–435, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-417-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-417-2025, 2025 | 1,745 views
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05 Nov 2024
River suspended-sand flux computation with uncertainty estimation using water samples and high-resolution ADCP measurements
Jessica Marggraf, Guillaume Dramais, Jérôme Le Coz, Blaise Calmel, Benoît Camenen, David J. Topping, William Santini, Gilles Pierrefeu, and François Lauters
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1243–1266, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1243-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1243-2024, 2024 | 1,743 views
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08 Aug 2025
AI-based tracking of fast-moving alpine landforms using high-frequency monoscopic time-lapse imagery
Hanne Hendrickx, Melanie Elias, Xabier Blanch, Reynald Delaloye, and Anette Eltner
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 705–721, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-705-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-705-2025, 2025 | 1,742 views
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12 Dec 2024
Landscape response to tectonic deformation and cyclic climate change since ca. 800 ka in the southern central Andes
Elizabeth N. Orr, Taylor F. Schildgen, Stefanie Tofelde, Hella Wittmann, and Ricardo N. Alonso
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1391–1413, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1391-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1391-2024, 2024 | 1,725 views
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14 Jul 2025
Computational sedimentation modelling calibration: a tool to measure the settling velocity under different gravity conditions
Nikolaus J. Kuhn and Federica Trudu
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 549–561, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-549-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-549-2025, 2025 | 1,704 views
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28 Jul 2025
Late Pleistocene–Holocene denudation, uplift, and morphology evolution of the Armorican Massif (western Europe)
Oswald Malcles, Stéphane Mazzotti, Philippe Vernant, and Vincent Godard
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 629–645, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-629-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-629-2025, 2025 | 1,674 views
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04 Sep 2025
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Biomechanical parameters of marram grass (Calamagrostis arenaria) for advanced modeling of dune vegetation
Viktoria Kosmalla, Oliver Lojek, Jana Carus, Kara Keimer, Lukas Ahrenbeck, Björn Mehrtens, David Schürenkamp, Boris Schröder, and Nils Goseberg
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 791–825, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-791-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-791-2025, 2025 | 1,670 views
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19 Mar 2025
An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids
Alexander B. Prescott, Jon D. Pelletier, Satya Chataut, and Sriram Ananthanarayan
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 239–256, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-239-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-239-2025, 2025 | 1,665 views
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27 Mar 2025
Haloturbation in the northern Atacama Desert revealed by a hidden subsurface network of calcium sulfate wedges
Aline Zinelabedin, Joel Mohren, Maria Wierzbicka-Wieczorek, Tibor Janos Dunai, Stefan Heinze, and Benedikt Ritter
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 257–276, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-257-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-257-2025, 2025 | 1,652 views
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15 Sep 2025
Grain size dynamics using a new planform model – Part 1: GravelScape description and validation
Amanda Lily Wild, Jean Braun, Alexander C. Whittaker, and Sebastien Castelltort
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 875–887, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-875-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-875-2025, 2025 | 1,575 views
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20 Jun 2025
Modeling active layer thickness in permafrost rock walls based on an analytical solution of the heat transport equation, Kitzsteinhorn, Hohe Tauern Range, Austria
Wolfgang Aumer, Ingo Hartmeyer, Carolyn-Monika Görres, Daniel Uteau, Maike Offer, and Stephan Peth
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 473–493, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-473-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-473-2025, 2025 | 1,557 views
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02 Jan 2025
Examination of analytical shear stress predictions for coastal dune evolution
Orie Cecil, Nicholas Cohn, Matthew Farthing, Sourav Dutta, and Andrew Trautz
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 1–22, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-1-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-1-2025, 2025 | 1,556 views
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20 Jan 2025
Evidence of slow millennial cliff retreat rates using cosmogenic nuclides in coastal colluvium
Rémi Bossis, Vincent Regard, Sébastien Carretier, and Sandrine Choy
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 71–79, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-71-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-71-2025, 2025 | 1,539 views
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30 Jul 2025
Localised geomorphic response to channel-spanning leaky wooden dams
Joshua M. Wolstenholme, Christopher J. Skinner, David Milan, Robert E. Thomas, and Daniel R. Parsons
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 647–663, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-647-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-647-2025, 2025 | 1,509 views
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13 Jan 2025
Equilibrium distance from long-range dune interactions
Jean Vérité, Clément Narteau, Olivier Rozier, Jeanne Alkalla, Laurie Barrier, and Sylvain Courrech du Pont
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 23–39, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-23-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-23-2025, 2025 | 1,500 views
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30 Jan 2025
Width evolution of channel belts as a random walk
Jens M. Turowski, Fergus McNab, Aaron Bufe, and Stefanie Tofelde
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 97–117, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-97-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-97-2025, 2025 | 1,494 views
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21 Jul 2025
Spatiotemporal denudation rates of the Swabian Alb escarpment (southwestern Germany) dominated by anthropogenic impact, lithology, and base-level lowering
Mirjam Schaller, Daniel Peifer, Alexander B. Neely, Thomas Bernard, Christoph Glotzbach, Alexander R. Beer, and Todd A. Ehlers
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 571–591, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-571-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-571-2025, 2025 | 1,484 views
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11 Dec 2024
The Aare main overdeepening on the northern margin of the European Alps: basins, riegels, and slot canyons
Fritz Schlunegger, Edi Kissling, Dimitri Tibo Bandou, Guilhem Amin Douillet, David Mair, Urs Marti, Regina Reber, Patrick Schläfli, and Michael Alfred Schwenk
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1371–1389, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1371-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1371-2024, 2024 | 1,482 views
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22 Jul 2025
Surface grain-size mapping of braided channels from SfM photogrammetry
Loïs Ribet, Frédéric Liébault, Laurent Borgniet, Michaël Deschâtres, and Gabriel Melun
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 607–627, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-607-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-607-2025, 2025 | 1,479 views
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13 Dec 2024
Post-fire evolution of ravel transport regimes in the Diablo Range, CA
Hayden L. Jacobson, Danica L. Roth, Gabriel Walton, Margaret Zimmer, and Kerri Johnson
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1415–1446, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1415-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1415-2024, 2024 | 1,466 views
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07 Feb 2025
Automatic detection of floating instream large wood in videos using deep learning
Janbert Aarnink, Tom Beucler, Marceline Vuaridel, and Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 167–189, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-167-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-167-2025, 2025 | 1,466 views
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07 Feb 2025
Geomorphic imprint of high-mountain floods: insights from the 2022 hydrological extreme across the upper Indus River catchment in the northwestern Himalayas
Abhishek Kashyap, Kristen L. Cook, and Mukunda Dev Behera
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 147–166, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-147-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-147-2025, 2025 | 1,458 views
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25 Aug 2025
Old orogen–young topography: lithological contrasts controlling erosion and relief formation in the Bohemian Massif
Jörg Robl, Fabian Dremel, Kurt Stüwe, Stefan Hergarten, Christoph von Hagke, and Derek Fabel
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 745–770, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-745-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-745-2025, 2025 | 1,439 views
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26 Aug 2025
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A numerical model of microplastic erosion, transport, and deposition for fluvial systems
John J. Armitage and Sébastien Rohais
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 771–789, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-771-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-771-2025, 2025 | 1,379 views
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27 Nov 2024
A simple model for faceted topographies at normal faults based on an extended stream-power law
Stefan Hergarten
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1315–1327, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1315-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1315-2024, 2024 | 1,367 views
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06 Jun 2025
Investigating the celerity of propagation for small perturbations and dispersive sediment aggradation under a supercritical flow
Hasan Eslami, Erfan Poursoleymanzadeh, Mojtaba Hiteh, Keivan Tavakoli, Melika Yavari Nia, Ehsan Zadehali, Reihaneh Zarrabi, and Alessio Radice
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 437–454, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-437-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-437-2025, 2025 | 1,350 views
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11 Sep 2025
Translating deposition ages into erosion rates: inverse landscape evolution modelling and uncertainty analysis
W. Marijn van der Meij
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 845–860, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-845-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-845-2025, 2025 | 1,349 views
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08 Oct 2025
Slow-moving rock glaciers in marginal periglacial environment of Southern Carpathians
Alexandru Onaca, Flavius Sîrbu, Valentin Poncoş, Christin Hilbich, Tazio Strozzi, Petru Urdea, Răzvan Popescu, Oana Berzescu, Bernd Etzelmüller, Alfred Vespremeanu-Stroe, Mirela Vasile, Delia Teleagă, Dan Birtaş, Iosif Lopătiţă, Simon Filhol, Alexandru Hegyi, and Florina Ardelean
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 981–1001, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-981-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-981-2025, 2025 | 1,340 views
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31 Mar 2025
Hillslope diffusion and channel steepness in landscape evolution models
David G. Litwin, Luca C. Malatesta, and Leonard S. Sklar
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 277–293, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-277-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-277-2025, 2025 | 1,336 views
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22 Jul 2025
Modeling memory in gravel-bed rivers: a flow-history-dependent relation for evolving thresholds of motion
Claire C. Masteller, Joel P. L. Johnson, Dieter Rickenmann, and Jens M. Turowski
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 593–605, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-593-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-593-2025, 2025 | 1,324 views
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05 Aug 2025
Use of simple analytical solutions in the calibration of shallow water equation debris flow models
Riccardo Bonomelli, Marco Pilotti, and Gabriele Farina
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 665–681, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-665-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-665-2025, 2025 | 1,279 views
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12 Mar 2025
Geometric constraints on tributary fluvial network junction angles
Jon D. Pelletier, Robert G. Hayes, Olivia Hoch, Brendan Fenerty, and Luke A. McGuire
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 219–238, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-219-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-219-2025, 2025 | 1,272 views
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15 May 2025
Sub-surface processes and heat fluxes at coarse blocky Murtèl rock glacier (Engadine, eastern Swiss Alps): seasonal ice and convective cooling render rock glaciers climate-robust
Dominik Amschwand, Jonas Wicky, Martin Scherler, Martin Hoelzle, Bernhard Krummenacher, Anna Haberkorn, Christian Kienholz, and Hansueli Gubler
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 365–401, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-365-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-365-2025, 2025 | 1,256 views
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18 Jul 2025
Short communication: Learning how landscapes evolve with neural operators
Gareth G. Roberts
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 563–570, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-563-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-563-2025, 2025 | 1,236 views
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24 Sep 2025
Curvature-based pebble segmentation for reconstructed surface meshes
Aljoscha Rheinwalt, Benjamin Purinton, and Bodo Bookhagen
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 923–940, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-923-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-923-2025, 2025 | 1,223 views
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10 Sep 2025
Morphological response to climate-induced flood-event variability in a subarctic river
Linnea Blåfield, Carlos Gonzales-Inca, Petteri Alho, and Elina Kasvi
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 827–844, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-827-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-827-2025, 2025 | 1,197 views
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14 May 2025
Influence of alluvial slope on avulsion in river deltas
Octria A. Prasojo, Trevor B. Hoey, Amanda Owen, and Richard D. Williams
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 349–363, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-349-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-349-2025, 2025 | 1,181 views
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03 Apr 2025
Decadal in situ hydrological observations and empirical modeling of pressure head in a high-alpine, fractured calcareous rock slope
Riccardo Scandroglio, Samuel Weber, Till Rehm, and Michael Krautblatter
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 295–314, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-295-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-295-2025, 2025 | 1,150 views
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19 May 2025
A fractal framework for channel–hillslope coupling
Benjamin Kargère, José Constantine, Tristram Hales, Stuart Grieve, and Stewart Johnson
Earth Surf. Dynam., 13, 403–415, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-403-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-403-2025, 2025 | 1,129 views
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