This paper discusses nivation and its effects, based on quantitative studies. These are related to local environmental conditions including slope type, aspect and weathering cover. It illustrates the role of snow patches in the High Tatras.
This paper on selected case studies makes comparisons with climate parameters, slope erosion caused by rapid snow melt and slushflows (slush avalanches, slushers), and slope erosion due to debris flows or slides, triggered by heavy rainfalls
the snow cover during the initial period of snowmelt-runoff. In addition, release and movement of a high magnitude-low frequency slush torrent was documented on video and photographs. The results verify that the initiation of slush streams is confined