Assessment of rainfall thresholds and soil moisture modeling for operational hydrogeological risk prevention in the Umbria region (central Italy)

Landslides

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 229-237

  Ponziani, Francesco ^a   Pandolfo, Claudia ^a   Stelluti, Marco ^a   Berni, Nicola ^a   Brocca, Luca ^b   Moramarco, Tommaso ^b  

^a Umbria Region Functional Centre   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrogeological risk; Landslides; Rainfall thresholds; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ITALY; CIVIL PROTECTION; EARLY WARNING; HYDRO-GEOLOGICAL RISK; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MOISTURE MODELING; OPERATIONAL USE; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; SHALLOW LANDSLIDE; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL WATER BALANCE MODEL; STORM EVENTS; SUB-AREAS; TRIGGERING OF LANDSLIDES; VULNERABLE AREA;

CLIMATE MODELS; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; RISK PERCEPTION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; THRESHOLD; WATER BUDGET;

ITALY; UMBRIA;

EID: 84863540105     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-011-0287-3     Document Type: Article

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