Evidence of an emerging levee failure mechanism causing disastrous floods in Italy

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 7995-8011

  Orlandini, Stefano ^a   Moretti, Giovanni ^a   Albertson, John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

animal burrows; floods; levee failures

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; EMBANKMENTS; EROSION; FLOODS; LEVEES; PHOTOGRAPHY; RAIN; RIVERS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; BREACH DEVELOPMENT; FAILURE MECHANISM; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INTERNAL EROSION; NORTHERN ITALY; VARIABLY SATURATED FLOW; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BURROWING; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; DEN; FAILURE MECHANISM; FLOOD DAMAGE; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; LEVEE; NATURAL DISASTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER FLOW; RODENT; WATER EROSION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ITALY; SECCHIA BASIN;

ANIMALIA; HYSTRIX CRISTATA;

EID: 84956836715     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017426     Document Type: Article

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