Wildfire impacts on the processes that generate debris flows in burned watersheds

Natural Hazards

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 217-227

  Parise, M ^a   Cannon, S H ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Debris flows; Erosion; Hazards; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASIN; DEBRIS FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ERODIBILITY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; RUNOFF; SLOPE FAILURE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOIL EROSION; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856386509     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9769-9     Document Type: Article

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