Empirical relationships for debris flows

Natural Hazards

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-77

  Rickenmann, Dieter ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Debris flow volume; Flow velocity; Hazard assessment; Peak discharge; Runout distance; Torrent; Travel distance

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; HAZARD ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032711715     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008064220727     Document Type: Article

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