Approaches for defining thresholds and return periods for rainfall-triggered shallow landslides

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1444-1460

  Frattini, Paolo ^a   Crosta, Giovanni ^a   Sosio, Rosanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antecedent rainfall; Logistic regression; Monte Carlo simulation; Physically based model; Rainfall return period; Rainfall thresholds; Shallow landslides

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PHYSICALLY BASED MODEL; RAINFALL RETURN PERIOD; RAINFALL THRESHOLDS; SHALLOW LANDSLIDES;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LANDSLIDES; LOGISTICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; THUNDERSTORMS;

RAIN;

LANDSLIDE; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINSTORM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETURN PERIOD; SLOPE FAILURE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 65449128049     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7269     Document Type: Article

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