A low-cost method to measure the timing of postfire flash floods and debris flows relative to rainfall

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kean, Jason W ^a   Staley, Dennis M ^a   Leeper, Robert J ^b   Schmidt, Kevin M ^c   Gartner, Joseph E ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MONITORING; BASIN AREA; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DEBRIS FLOWS; DEPOSIT CHARACTERISTICS; FAST RATE; FLASH FLOOD; FLOW PRESSURE; FLOW SPEED; FLOW TYPE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; POST-FIRE; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SITE VISITS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TIME-SCALES;

DESIGN; FLOODS; PRESSURE SENSORS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; RAIN; WATERSHEDS;

DEBRIS;

CORRELATION; DEBRIS FLOW; FLASH FLOOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861141953     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011460     Document Type: Article

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