Evolution of soil wetting patterns preceding a hydrologically induced landslide inferred from electrical resistivity survey and point measurements of volumetric water content and pore water pressure

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 7992-8004

  Lehmann, Peter ^a   Gambazzi, Francesca ^a,b   Suski, Barbara ^b   Baron, Ludovic ^b   Askarinejad, Amin ^a   Springman, Sarah M ^a   Holliger, Klaus ^b   Or, Dani ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; SOIL WETTING PATTERN; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT;

EXPERIMENTS; PORE PRESSURE; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICS; WETTING;

LANDSLIDES;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSLIDE; POREWATER; SATURATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TENSIOMETER; TOMOGRAPHY; WETTING;

EID: 84896712886     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014560     Document Type: Article

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