Insights from the topographic characteristics of a large global catalog of rainfall-induced landslide event inventories
| dc.contributor.author | Emberson, Robert | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kirschbaum, Dalia B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amatya, Pukar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tanyas, Hakan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marc, Odin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-05T17:02:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-05T17:02:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-04-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Landslides are a key hazard in high-relief areas around the world and pose a risk to populations and infrastructure. It is important to understand where landslides are likely to occur in the landscape to inform local analyses of exposure and potential impacts. Large triggering events such as earthquakes or major rain storms often cause hundreds or thousands of landslides, and mapping the landslide populations generated by these events can provide extensive datasets of landslide locations. Previous work has explored the characteristic locations of landslides triggered by seismic shaking, but rainfall-induced landslides are likely to occur in different parts of a given landscape when compared to seismically induced failures. Here we show measurements of a range of topographic parameters associated with rainfall-induced landslides inventories, including a number of previously unpublished inventories which we also present here. We find that the average upstream angle and compound topographic index are strong predictors of landslide scar location, while the local relief and topographic position index provide a stronger sense of where landslide material may end up (and thus where hazard may be highest). By providing a large compilation of inventory data for open use by the landslide community, we suggest that this work could be useful for other regional and global landslide modeling studies and local calibration of landslide susceptibility assessment, as well as hazard mitigation studies. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research has been supported by the Science Mission Directorate (grant no. 18-DISASTER18-0022). This work utilized data made available through the NASA Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/1129/2022/ | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 21 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2s1zt-sbwc | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Emberson, R., Kirschbaum, D. B., Amatya, P., Tanyas, H., and Marc, O.: Insights from the topographic characteristics of a large global catalog of rainfall-induced landslide event inventories, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1129–1149, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1129-2022, 2022. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1129-2022 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/26099 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | EGU | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC GESTAR II Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.rights | This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. | en_US |
| dc.rights | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ | * |
| dc.title | Insights from the topographic characteristics of a large global catalog of rainfall-induced landslide event inventories | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2823-4453 | en_US |
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