The rainfall intensity-duration control of shallow landslides and debris flows: An update

Landslides

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-17

  Guzzetti, Fausto ^a   Peruccacci, Silvia ^a   Rossi, Mauro ^a   Stark, Colin P ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Rainfall; Shallow landslides; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DEBRIS; FLOW OF WATER; LANDSLIDES; STATISTICS;

DEBRIS FLOWS; GLOBAL CLIMATE DATASET; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; RAINFALL INTENSITY-DURATION (ID); SHALLOW LANDSLIDES;

RAIN;

DATABASE; DEBRIS FLOW; LANDSLIDE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SLOPE FAILURE; THRESHOLD;

EID: 39349097266     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-007-0112-1     Document Type: Article

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