Analysis of historical landslide time series in the Emilia-Romagna region, northern Italy

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1123-1137

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

^a CNR   (Italy)

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

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frequency size distribution; Hazard; Historical landslides; Italy; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; CUMULATIVE AMOUNT; EROSION MODELLING; FREQUENCY SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; HISTORICAL ARCHIVE; HISTORICAL LANDSLIDES; ITALY; LANDSLIDING; NORTHERN ITALY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POWER-LAW; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RAINFALL; RAINFALL TRENDS; SEASONAL RAINFALL; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STUDY AREAS;

LANDSLIDES; LIBRARIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

EROSION; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; LANDSLIDE; POWER LAW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY;

EMILIA;

EID: 77955736039     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1858     Document Type: Article

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