Probabilistic forecasting of shallow, rainfall-triggered landslides using real-time numerical weather predictions

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 349-357

  Schmidt, J ^a   Turek, G ^a,c   Clark, M P ^a   Uddstrom, M ^a   Dymond, J R ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c Alchemy Group   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; REAL TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATURATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER LEVEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 42149103824     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-8-349-2008     Document Type: Article

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