A debris-flow alarm system for the Alpine Illgraben catchment: Design and performance

Natural Hazards

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 517-539

  Badoux, Alexandre ^a   Graf, Christoph ^a   Rhyner, Jakob ^b   Kuntner, Richard ^c   McArdell, Brian W ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^c Teysseire and Candolfi Engineering   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alarm system; Debris flow detection; Debris flow observation; Hazard awareness; Rainfall intensity duration threshold; Swiss alps

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DEBRIS FLOW; DECISION MAKING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHONE RIVER; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

SIRENIDAE;

EID: 67349219144     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9303-x     Document Type: Article

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