Landslides triggered by the February 2019 atmospheric river storm, western Riverside County, California, USA

On February 14th, 2019, a strong atmospheric river storm (AR4 on the Atmospheric River scale of Ralph et al., 2019) struck California. The heavy rainfall caused landslides in both northern and southern California (Hatchett et al., 2020). This data release includes two subsets of mapped shallow landslide source locations in the vicinity of western Riverside County, California, where sufficient post-event imagery was available within Google Earth (image date: August 15, 2019).

The data release includes:

1) .csv files containing the point locations of shallow hillslope landslides,
2) .zip files containing shapfiles (.shp) of the mapped study areas.

Ralph, F., Rutz, J. J., Cordeira, J. M., Dettinger, M., Anderson, M., Reynolds, D., et al. (2019). A Scale to Characterize the Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(2), 269–289. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0023.1

Hatchett, B. J., Cao, Q., Dawson, P. B., Ellis, C. J., Hecht, C. W., Kawzenuk, B., et al. (2020). Observations of an Extreme Atmospheric River Storm With a Diverse Sensor Network. Earth and Space Science, 7(8), e2020EA001129. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001129

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