Debris flow hazard modelling on medium scale: Valtellina di Tirano, Italy

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2379-2390

  Blahut, J ^a   Horton, P ^b   Sterlacchini, S ^c   Jaboyedoff, M ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ROCK STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d Quanterra   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEBRIS FLOW; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW MODELING; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAPPING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZONATION;

ITALY; LOMBARDY; VALTELLINA;

EID: 78649573706     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-2379-2010     Document Type: Article

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