Soil moisture information can improve shallow landslide forecasting using the hydrometeorological threshold approach

Empirical thresholds indicating the meteorological conditions leading to shallow landslide triggering are one of the most important components of landslide early warning systems (LEWS). Thresholds have been determined for many parts of the globe and present significant margins of improvement, especially for the high number of false alarms...

Reliability Analysis of Infinite Slopes under Random Rainfall Events

Landslide events often occur after rainfall events during which the pore water pressure builds up within surficial soil layers, leading to shallow slope failure. The spatial variability of the permeability parameters of the soil causes high gradients in pore water pressure when the rainwater infiltrates into the slope. In this paper, we compute...

A New Tool for Large-Area Analysis of Transient Pore Water Pressures in Layered Shallow Covers Prone to Failure

In this paper we present a modified version of an existing, physically-based model for shallow landslide susceptibility analysis over large area. In general, the potentially unstable soil cover is considered uniform and homogeneous, over impervious underlying bedrock. In several case studies, this was proven to be unrealistic. The possibility of...

The Round Robin Test on Landslide Hydrological Modeling at IWL2013

During the Third Italian Workshop on Landslide, a special session was dedicated to a landslide hydrological modeling competition. The modeling exercise dealt with slopes covered with loose granular pyroclastic deposits typical of Campania (southern Italy). The data provided to the participants for the calibration of their models are described,...