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Real-time landslide warning during heavy rainfall Real-time landslide warning during heavy rainfall
A real-time system for issuing warnings of landslides during major storms is being developed for the San Francisco Bay region, California. The system is based on empirical and theoretical relations between rainfall and landslide initiation, geologic determination of areas susceptible to landslides, real-time monitoring of a regional network of telemetering rain gages, and National...
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David K. Keefer, R. C. Wilson, R. K. Mark, E. E. Brabb, W. M. Brown, S. D. Ellen, E. L. Harp, G. F. Wieczorek, C.S. Alger, R.S. Zatkin
Preliminary results from a study of natural slope failures triggered by the storm of November 3.5.1985, Germany Valley, West Virginia and Virginia: Chapter 4 in Landslides of eastern North America Preliminary results from a study of natural slope failures triggered by the storm of November 3.5.1985, Germany Valley, West Virginia and Virginia: Chapter 4 in Landslides of eastern North America
During the first five days of November 1985, a low-pressure system in the Ohio River valley combined with a low-pressure system referred to as Tropical Storm Juan to produce heavy rainfall in the Potomac, James, and Rappahannock River basins. Severe flooding accompanied the rainfall; 43 lives were lost and the flood was estimated to be the most expensive natural disaster of 1985 in the...
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Robert B. Jacobson, Elizabeth D. Cron, John P. McGeehin
Landslides of Eastern North America Landslides of Eastern North America
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Arthur P. Schultz, C.S. Southworth
System designed for issuing landslide alerts in the San Francisco Bay area System designed for issuing landslide alerts in the San Francisco Bay area
A system for forecasting landslides during major storms has been developed for the San Francisco Bay area by the U.S Geological Survey and was successfully tested during heavy storms in the bay area during February 1986. Based on the forecasts provided by the USGS, the National Weather Service (NWS) included landslide warnings in its regular weather forecasts or in special weather...
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D. Finley
DEFORESTATION AND LANDSLIDES IN YUNNAN, CHINA. DEFORESTATION AND LANDSLIDES IN YUNNAN, CHINA.
Landslides historically have caused severe erosion problems in the Xiao River drainage region of northeastern Yunnan Province, China, that hence resulted in serious economic and social consequences. Owing to monsoonal storms of high rainfall intensity, the erosion potential is high in this mountainous, seismically active region. Landslides transported large quantities of materials into...
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Gerald F. Wieczorek, Jishan Wu, Tianchi Li
Current loops fitted to geomagnetic model spherical harmonic coefficients. Current loops fitted to geomagnetic model spherical harmonic coefficients.
One hundred-sixty circular current loops with radial axes were fitted by least squares to the 899 spherical harmonic coefficients of a 29th degree model. In the first case, the parameters that were fitted for each loop were the normalized magnetic moment, the distance from the center of the Earth to the current element, the colatitude and E. longitude of the loop axis, and one-half of...
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L.R. Alldredge
Some effects of quiet geomagnetic field changes upon values used for main field modeling Some effects of quiet geomagnetic field changes upon values used for main field modeling
The effects of three methods of data selection upon the assumed main field levels for geomagnetic observatory records used in main field modeling were investigated for a year of very low solar-terrestrial activity. The first method concerned the differences between the year's average of quiet day field values and the average of all values during the year. For H these differences were 2-3...
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W.H. Campbell
The geomagnetic jerk of 1969 and the DGRFs The geomagnetic jerk of 1969 and the DGRFs
Cubic spline fits to the DGRF/IGRF series indicate agreement with other analyses showing the 1969-1970 magnetic jerk in the h ??12 and g ??02 secular change coefficients, and agreement that the h ??11 term showed no sharp change. The variation of the g ??01 term is out of phase with other analyses indicating a likely error in its representation in the 1965-1975 interval. We recommend...
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D. Thompson, J.C. Cain
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, August 1987 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, August 1987
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John B. Townshend, R. V. O’Connell, L.Y. Torrence
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 1987 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 1987
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John B. Townshend, R. V. O’Connell, L.Y. Torrence
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, May 1987 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, May 1987
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John B. Townshend, R. V. O’Connell, L.Y. Torrence
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, March 1987 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, March 1987
No abstract available.
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John B. Townshend, R. V. O’Connell, L.Y. Torrence