Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-31-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-31-2018
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04 Jan 2018
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Invited perspectives: Hydrological perspectives on precipitation intensity-duration thresholds for landslide initiation: proposing hydro-meteorological thresholds

Thom Bogaard and Roberto Greco

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The vast majority of shallow landslides and debris flows are precipitation initiated and predicted using historical landslides plotted versus observed precipitation information. However, this approach has severe limitations. This is partly due to the fact that it is not precipitation that initiates a landslide or debris flow but rather the hydrological dynamics in the soil and slope. We propose to include hydrological information in the regional hydro-meteorological hazard assessment.
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