Regional landslide susceptibility: Spatiotemporal variations under dynamic soil moisture conditions

Natural Hazards

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1317-1337

  Ray, Ram L ^a   Jacobs, Jennifer M ^b   Ballestero, Thomas P ^b  

^a UTC Aerospace Systems   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Landslide; Safety factor; Spatiotemporal; Transitional; Variability

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POWER LAW; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BAGMATI; CALIFORNIA; DHADING; EL DORADO COUNTY; NEPAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80255131462     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9834-4     Document Type: Article

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