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Research article
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04 Sep 2018
Research article |
| 04 Sep 2018
| 04 Sep 2018
Evaluation of predictive models for post-fire debris flow occurrence in the western United States
Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Elisa Destro
Department of Leaf, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University
of Padova, Legnaro, PD, Italy
Md Abul Ehsan Bhuiyan
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Marco Borga
Department of Leaf, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University
of Padova, Legnaro, PD, Italy
Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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Short summary
Debris flows, following wildfires, constitute a significant threat to downstream populations and infrastructure. Therefore, developing measures to reduce the vulnerability of local communities to debris flows is of paramount importance. This work proposes a new model for predicting post-fire debris flow occurrence on a regional scale and demonstrates that the proposed model has notably higher skill than the currently used approaches.
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