Towards establishing climatic thresholds for slope instability: Use of a physically-based combined soil hydrology-slope stability model

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 881-905

  Brooks, S M ^a   Crozier, M J ^b   Glade, T W ^c   Anderson, M G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Physically based modelling; Shallow landslides; Soil hydrology; Triggering rainfall thresholds

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; SLOPE STABILITY; THRESHOLD; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EID: 1842511788     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-2477-y     Document Type: Article

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