Storm-triggered Landslides in Warmer Climates

This volume covers the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach - as well as the pros and cons of these approaches, and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach. In addition, this volume will systematical...

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मुख्य लेखक: Ren, Diandong (लेखक)
निगमित लेखक: SpringerLink (Online service)
स्वरूप: ई-पुस्तक
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
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विषय - सूची:
  • Introduction
  • Ecosystem of sloping terrain, soil and vegetation
  • Landslides are a double-edged sword
  • Strain and Stress
  • Landslide dynamics
  • SEGMENT-Landslide and applications on various climatic zones
  • Changes in extreme precipitation in a future warming climate
  • Landslides impact on sea level rise
  • Modeling the debris flows in the aftermath of the 2007 Southern California Wildfires
  • Opportunity and challenges in a remote sensing era
  • The path forward: Landslides in a future climate
  • Mathematical skills required to fully understand SEGMENT-Landslide
  • Appendix 1: Pressure fields within a simplest granular media - A comment on a recent Science article on locomotors running over sands
  • Appendix 2: Cluster analysis
  • Appendix 3: Scarp size distribution, who are the players?
  • Appendix 4: Basic tensor (and vector) operations
  • Appendix 5: GPD analysis of extreme precipitation
  • Appendix C1: Lax-Windoff scheme of various order of accuracy (1D followed by a higher order scheme implemented in SEGMENT-Landslide
  • Appendix C2: 1D thermal equation solver (semi-implicit C-N scheme).