Predicting storm-triggered landslides

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-139

  Ren, Diandong ^a,c   Fu, Rong ^a   Leslie, Lance M ^b   Dickinson, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE MEASUREMENTS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; MACROPORES; MECHANISTIC MODELING; NATURAL HAZARD; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES;

CLIMATE MODELS; LANDSLIDES; STORMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79953216006     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS3017.1     Document Type: Article

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