Slope failures at high elevation in the Italian Alps in the period 2000-2020

DOI

This dataset implements and updates with 106 new records the one published by Paranunzio et al. 2019 (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.903761). The two datasets have the same survey methodology, making the new dataset homogeneous with the previous one. All together, we collected and validated a dataset of 392 slope instability events documented from 2000 to 2020, at high elevation (above 1500 m a.s.l.) in the Italian Alps. The dataset includes landslides, blockfalls, rockfalls, soil slips, rock avalanches and complex landslides. It was realized in the framework of a study aimed to assess the susceptibility to failure of slopes with specific geomorphological characteristics and the role of climatic elements in the preparation and/or triggering of slope instability. At present, this is the most comprehensive dataset on slope failures occurred at high elevation in the Italian Alps in the last two decades. This work is intended as a contribution to the creation of an alpine/global dataset of slope failures at high elevation, useful for studying the impacts of climate change on fragilemountain environments.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931824
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2673-4
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903761
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.931824
Provenance
Creator Guerini, Michele ORCID logo; Giardino, Marco ORCID logo; Paranunzio, Roberta ORCID logo; Nigrelli, Guido ORCID logo; Turconi, Laura ORCID logo; Luino, Fabio ORCID logo; Chiarle, Marta ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 4560 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (6.676W, 44.144S, 13.480E, 46.926N); Italian Alps
Temporal Coverage Begin 2000-03-11T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-09-26T00:00:00Z