Antecedent Precipitation as a Potential Proxy for Landslide Incidence in South West United Kingdom

Understanding geohazards in the UNESCO WHL site of the Derwent Valley Mills (UK) using geological and remote sensing data

“… Landslides: Shallow translational and rotational landslides are strongly controlled by antecedent effective rainfall, with significant increases in susceptibility following a high intensity rainfall event [22]. UKCP09 projects winter high intensity rainfall events will increase in magnitude by approximately 10% under both medium and high emissions scenarios [17], leading to increased susceptibility to associated landslide-prone areas.…”

The National Landslide Database of Great Britain: Acquisition, communication and the role of social media

“…To analyse the potential establishment of rainfall triggers a regional assessment of antecedent effective rainfall and landslide occurrence was carried out for SW England and S Wales using data from the NLD and rainfall statistics from the Met Office and Wunderground.com (Pennington et al 2014). Here, the authors highlighted two significant trends -a long-term gradual accumulation from 7 to 90 days before the events occurred and a higher intensity rainfall accumulation rate in the 7 days leading to failure.…”

Creation of a National Landslide Domain Map to Aid Susceptibility Mapping in Great Britain

“…Highland and Bobrowsky (2008), Reeves et al (2012), Hurst et al (2013), Gibson et al (2013), Pennington et al (2014) and Dijkstra et al (2016) identify a number of these controls such as relief, morphology of the terrain as well as the soil and underlying geology. BGS data including national scale geological maps coupled with geomorphological and geological expertise, and the analysis of the landslide database, supports these broad observations and has resulted in the selection of a range of resources that contributed to the creation of the landslides domain map ( Table 2).…”

“…Many of the landslides triggered during these periods were relatively small, but their impacts have been significant (e.g. causing fatalities in Burton Bradstock and Beaminster in 2012;and in Looe in 2013;Pennington and Harrison, 2013;Pennington et al 2014;Pennington et al 2015). These events have reinforced the importance of recording detailed information (in particular accurate location and time of occurrence) in the NLD, enabling further development of national scale landslide susceptibility and hazard assessments (e.g.…”

“…These events have reinforced the importance of recording detailed information (in particular accurate location and time of occurrence) in the NLD, enabling further development of national scale landslide susceptibility and hazard assessments (e.g. Reeves et al 2012;Hurst et al 2013;Gibson et al 2013;Pennington et al 2014;Dijkstra et al 2016).…”