Temporal correlations and clustering of landslides

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1138-1156

  Witt, Annette ^a,b   Malamud, Bruce D ^b   Rossi, Mauro ^c   Guzzetti, Fausto ^c   Peruccacci, Silvia ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlations; Hazard; Landslides; Persistence; Temporal clustering

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATIONS; FANO FACTOR; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; HEAVY-TAILED; INTENSITY THRESHOLD; LANDSLIDING; LINEAR CORRELATION; LOMB PERIODOGRAM; PERSISTENCE; RANK CORRELATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SURROGATE DATA ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CLUSTERING; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; ZERO VALUES;

DATA HANDLING; LANDSLIDES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TIME SERIES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; LANDSLIDE; MODELING; NATURAL HAZARD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEIBULL THEORY;

EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY;

EMILIA;

EID: 77955735499     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1998     Document Type: Article

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