A regional real-time debris-flow warning system for the District of North Vancouver, Canada

Landslides

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 165-178

  Jakob, Matthias ^a   Owen, T ^a   Simpson, T ^a  

^a BGC ENGINEERING INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Debris flows; Rainfall induced landslides; Warning system

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT RAINFALL; BEST MATCH; CLASSIFICATION FUNCTIONS; DATA RECORDS; DATA SETS; DEBRIS FLOWS; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; HOMEPAGE; INPUT VARIABLES; LEVEL 2; LEVEL-1; LOSS OF LIFE; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OCEAN SCIENCE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PERSONAL RISKS; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL INDUCED LANDSLIDES; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINY SEASONS; RESIDUAL RISK; SHALLOW LANDSLIDE; SLIDING TIME WINDOWS; STORM RAINFALL; STUDY AREAS; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM OPERATION; TIME OF DAY; TIME-PERIODS; UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA; VANCOUVER , CANADA; WARNING TIME; WET SEASON;

ALARM SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEBRIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GAGES; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; STORMS; TAXATION; WATCHES;

FLOW GRAPHS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEBRIS FLOW; DECADAL VARIATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; RISK FACTOR;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 84863556703     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-011-0282-8     Document Type: Article

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