Geomorphologic characteristics of catastrophic landslides during typhoon Morakot in the Kaoping Watershed, Taiwan

Engineering Geology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 13-21

  Wu, Chun Hung ^a   Chen, Su Chin ^a   Chou, Hsien Ter ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Catastrophic landslide; Hsiaolin landslide; Kaoping watershed; Self organized criticality; Typhoon Morakot

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; CATASTROPHIC LANDSLIDES; DIFFERENT SCALE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DOWNSLOPE; FIELD INVESTIGATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LONG DURATION; POWER LAW EXPONENT; RAINFALL INDUCED LANDSLIDES; RETURN PERIODS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGES; TYPHOON MORAKOT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DISASTER PREVENTION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HURRICANES; LANDFORMS; RAIN; SURVEYING; WATERSHEDS;

LANDSLIDES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; TOPOGRAPHY; TYPHOON;

KAOPING RIVER; TAIWAN;

EID: 80053908565     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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