The Earth Surface Processes and Landforms special issue was guest edited by Michael Krautblatter (TUM) and Jeffrey R. Moore (Univ. of Utah). The issue contains 15 articles discussing state of the art in weathering, detachment, transport and deposition of rock slope failures. These were sourced from the 'Rockfalls, rockslides, and rock avalanches' session of the 2012 EGU General Assembly, and include:
Rock slope instability and erosion: toward improved process understanding
Michael Krautblatter and Jeffrey R. Moore
Rockfall rebound: comparison of detailed field experiments and alternative modelling approaches
Franck Bourrier, Frédéric Berger, Pascal Tardif, Luuk Dorren and Oldrich Hungr
The use of ballistic trajectory and granular flow models in predicting rockfall propagation
Franck Bourrier, Luuk Dorren and Oldrich Hungr
Slope failures and erosion rates on a glacierized high-mountain face under climatic changes
Luzia Fischer, Christian Huggel, Andreas Kääb and Wilfried Haeberli
Is climate change responsible for changing landslide activity in high mountains?
Christian Huggel, John J. Clague and Oliver Korup
Mechanical resistance of coppice stems derived from full-scale impact tests
Oliver Jancke, Frédéric Berger and Luuk K. A. Dorren
Why permafrost rocks become unstable: a rock–ice-mechanical model in time and space
Michael Krautblatter, Daniel Funk and Friederike K. Günzel
Influence of bedrock structures on the spatial pattern of erosional landforms in small alpine catchments
Alexandre Loye, Andrea Pedrazzini, Joshua I. Theule, Michel Jaboyedoff, Frédéric Liébault and Richard Metzger
Air circulation in deep fractures and the temperature field of an alpine rock slope
Jeffrey R. Moore, Valentin Gischig, Maren Katterbach and Simon Loew
Kinematics of an alpine retrogressive rockslide in the Japanese Alps
Ryoko Nishii and Norikazu Matsuoka
Unraveling driving factors for large rock–ice avalanche mobility
D. Schneider, C. Huggel, W. Haeberli and R. Kaitna
Arctic rockwall retreat rates estimated using laboratory-calibrated ERT measurements of talus cones in Longyeardalen, Svalbard
Matthias Benjamin Siewert, Michael Krautblatter, Hanne Hvidtfeldt Christiansen and Markus Eckerstorfer
Progressive failure of sheeted rock slopes: the 2009–2010 Rhombus Wall rock falls in Yosemite Valley, California, USA
Greg M. Stock, Stephen J. Martel, Brian D. Collins and Edwin L. Harp
Linking weathering and rock slope instability: non-linear perspectives
Heather A. Viles
Rock fall dynamics and deposition: an integrated analysis of the 2009 Ahwiyah Point rock fall, Yosemite National Park, USA
Valerie L. Zimmer, Brian D. Collins, Greg M. Stock and Nicholas Sitar