Debris-flow susceptibility assessment through cellular automata modeling: An example from 15-16 December 1999 disaster at Cervinara and San Martino Valle Caudina (Campania, southern Italy)

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 457-468

  Iovine, G ^a   Di Gregorio, S ^b   Lupiano, V ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DEBRIS FLOW; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MODELING;

CAMPANIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1642293429     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-3-457-2003     Document Type: Article

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