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Cellular automaton for realistic modelling of landslides
1Istituto di Cosmo-Geofisica del C.N.R., Torino, Italy
2Politecnico, Dipartimento di Georisorse e Territorio, Torino, Italy
Abstract. A numerical model is developed for the simulation of debris flow in landslides over a complex three dimensional topography. The model is then validated by comparing a simulation with reported field data. Our model is in fact a realistic elaboration of simpler "sandpile automata", which have in recent years been studied as supposedly paradigmatic of "self-organized criticality". Statistics and scaling properties of the simulation are examined, and show that the model has an intermittent behaviour.
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Citation: Segre, E. and Deangeli, C.: Cellular automaton for realistic modelling of landslides, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 2, 1-15, doi:10.5194/npg-2-1-1995, 1995. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
