Storm-triggered landslides in warmer climates. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Diandong Ren.
• Authors: Ren, Diandong
• Contents: 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).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 365 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 551.3/07; Earth sciences; Landslides; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Landslides; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Hydrology; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; The environment; Geological surface processes (geomorphology); Hydrology & the hydrosphere; Earth sciences; Soil science, sedimentology; Geology; Geology, Structural; Hydraulic engineering; Soil conservation; Nature -- Natural Disasters; Natural disasters; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319085180; 3319085182; 3319085174; 9783319085173
• Related ISBNs: 9783319085173
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 14, 2014).
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