Author, as appears in the article.: Coscarelli R; Aguilar E; Petrucci O; Vicente-Serrano SM; Zimbo F

Department: Geografia

URV's Author/s: Aguilar Anfrons, Enrique Modesto

Keywords: Sectorial indices Damaging hydrogeological events Comparison Climate indices Calabria (southern italy) vegetation sectorial indices risk rainfall-induced landslides management life extremes drought daily temperature comparison calabria (southern italy) calabria

Abstract: Climate variability can be the source of several multiple hazards and damaging phenomena, such as flash floods, debris flows, landslides, forest fires, etc. In this study the response in the frequency of landslides, floods and forest fires to a set of climate indices is studied, referring to a region of southern Italy (Calabria) located in the center of the Mediterranean basin, a hot-spot for climate change. For these comparisons, 5022 landslides and 1584 flood occurrences for a 29-year period (1990–2018) have been selected for the whole Calabria; the burnt areas have been analyzed for the same territory from 2008 to 2018. The climate indices have been calculated by means of daily rainfall and temperature data registered in 93 stations. The results showed that landslide occurrences are more linked with climate indices describing not very intense rainfall. Conversely, floods show best matches with climate indices representative of more extreme precipitation. Regarding the burnt areas, the results confirmed that very dry climate conditions, modifying the moisture content of the soil, can change the intensity and the extension of fires.

Research group: Centre en Canvi Climàtic (C3)

Thematic Areas: Meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ciencias sociales Atmospheric science

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: enric.aguilar@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-8384-377X

Record's date: 2023-02-23

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/9/11/156

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Climate. 9 (11):

APA: Coscarelli R; Aguilar E; Petrucci O; Vicente-Serrano SM; Zimbo F (2021). The potential role of climate indices to explain floods, mass-movement events and wildfires in southern Italy. Climate, 9(11), -. DOI: 10.3390/cli9110156

Article's DOI: 10.3390/cli9110156

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2021

Publication Type: Journal Publications