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Stephen D. Ellen
Researcher at United States Geological Survey
Publications - 12
Citations - 861
Stephen D. Ellen is an academic researcher from United States Geological Survey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Landslide & Debris flow. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 12 publications receiving 804 citations.
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Real-Time Landslide Warning During Heavy Rainfall
David K. Keefer,Raymond C. Wilson,Robert K. Mark,Earl E. Brabb,William M. Brown,Stephen D. Ellen,Edwin L. Harp,Gerald F. Wieczorek,Christopher S. Alger,Robert S. Zatkin +9 more
TL;DR: Although analysis after the storms suggests that modifications and additional development are needed, the system successfully predicted the times of major landslide events and could be used as a prototype for systems in other landslide-prone regions.
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Mobilization of debris flows from soil slips, San Francisco Bay region, California
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Statistical and Simulation Models for Mapping Debris-Flow Hazard
Robert K. Mark,Stephen D. Ellen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two different GIS-based approaches to the delineation of debris-flow hazard are described, empirically and process-based, and they are described as contrasting examples of approaches to hazard delineation.
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Development of rainfall warning thresholds for debris flows in the Honolulu District, Oahu
TL;DR: In this article, a simple numerical model was developed to study the interaction between heavy rainfall and pore-pressures on steep hillslopes and two threshold levels were derived from these lower bound relations: a "safety" threshold below which the likelihood of damaging debris flows is very low, and an "abundant" threshold level above which rainfall is likely to cause many debris flows and thus pose a hazard to life and property.
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Debris Flows and Hyperconcentrated Floods Along the Wasatch Front, Utah, 1983 and 1984
TL;DR: Wieczorek et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a technique for evaluating the potential for debris flows and hyperconcentrated floods to reach the canyon mouths, based on three assumptions: 1) debris flows would occur in response to a large influx of water to the soils, either from a thunderstorm or rapid snowmelt; 2) the partly-detached landslides were the most likely sources for future debris flows; and 3) debris-flow material incorporated from channels would be proportional to that from landslide sources.