The devastating Zhouqu storm-triggered debris flow of August 2010: Likely causes and possible trends in a future warming climate

On 8 August 2010 in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu, a rainstorm-triggered debris flow devastated the small county of Zhouqu. A modeling study, using a new multiple-phase scalable and extensible geofluid model, suggests that the cause is an intersection of several events. These were a hea...

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Main Author: Ren, Diandong
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9697