Rainfall duration and debris-flow initiated studies for real-time monitoring

Environmental Geology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 715-724

  Chien Yuan, Chen ^a   Tien Chien, Chen ^b   Fan Chieh, Yu ^c   Wen Hui, Yu ^a   Chun Chieh, Tseng ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER FOR DISASTER REDUCTION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chichi earthquake; Debris flows; Landslides; Rainfall thresholds; Real time monitoring; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; DEBRIS; FLOW OF WATER; GEOLOGY; LANDSLIDES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; REAL-TIME MONITORING;

RAIN;

DEBRIS FLOW; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REAL TIME;

EID: 16444381645     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-004-1203-0     Document Type: Article

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