An empirical approach for evaluation of the potential of debris flow occurrence in mountainous areas

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2979-2988

  Xu, Fu gang ^a   Yang, Xing guo ^a   Zhou, Jia wen ^a,b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Influence factors; Mathematical model; Occurrence probability; Rainfall condition

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW OCCURRENCES; DEBRIS FLOWS; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; INFLUENCE FACTORS; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; OCCURRENCE PROBABILITY; RAINFALL CONDITION;

LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB; PROBABILITY; RAIN;

DEBRIS;

DEBRIS FLOW; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; MOUNTAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE;

CHINA; QINGPING; SICHUAN;

EID: 84900589263     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2667-6     Document Type: Article

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