Predicting storm-triggered debris flow events: Application to the 2009 Ionian Peloritan disaster (Sicily, Italy)

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1785-1806

  Cama, M ^a   Lombardo, L ^a,b   Conoscenti, C ^a   Agnesi, V ^a   Rotigliano, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DEBRIS FLOW; LANDSLIDE; PREDICTION; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE; STORM;

ITALY; MESSINA [SICILY]; PELORITANI MOUNTAINS; SICILY;

EID: 84939153992     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-15-1785-2015     Document Type: Article

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