HILLSLOPE HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING FOR LANDSLIDES PREDICTION

Scientific knowledge about fundamental physical processes affecting infiltration, such as macropore and fissure flow, water repellency, soil structure, soil-vegetation interactions and effects of root reinforcement, has strongly improved in recent years and mostly gained at local scales, but their incorporation into larger scale hydrological models is still incomplete. Innovative studies ranging from unsaturated zone, hillslope and catchment hydrology, which can be applied to landslide research, are welcome, especially dealing with:

- model development and experimental evidence of hydrological processes at different scales;

- methods to derive effective parameters for modelling hydrological processes across scales;

- effects of heterogeneity of soil properties upon hillslope hydrological behaviour;

- application of hillslope scale hydrological models to landslide triggering prediction;

- field experiments results.