Estimation of debris flood magnitudes based on dendrogeomorphic data and semi-empirical relationships

Geomorphology

Volumn 201, Issue , 2013, Pages 80-85

  Schraml, Klaus ^a   Kogelnig, Barbara ^a   Scheidl, Christian ^a   Stoffel, Markus ^b,c   Kaitna, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Debris flood; Dendrogeomorphology; Magnitude estimation; Time series

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885067382     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.06.009     Document Type: Article

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