Add to ORKGThe aim of this paper is the investigation of gravity currents moving on beds with different slopes by both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. Laboratory experiments are performed by full-depth lock exchange release and an image analysis technique is applied to measure the space-time evolution of the gravity current's profile. A two-layers, 2D, shallow-water model is used to simulate gravity currents. The model takes into account the space-time evolution of free-surface and the mixing due to the gravity current. Entrainment at the interface between the gravity current and the ambient fluid is modeled by a modified Ellison & Turner’s formula (1959). Several tests are run to calibrate an entrainment parameter in order to reprod...