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The potential role of climate indices to explain floods, mass-movement events and wildfires in southern Italy

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    Identificador: imarina:9231339
    Autores:
    Coscarelli RAguilar EPetrucci OVicente-Serrano SMZimbo F
    Resumen:
    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.
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    Autor según el artículo: Coscarelli R; Aguilar E; Petrucci O; Vicente-Serrano SM; Zimbo F
    Departamento: Geografia
    Autor/es de la URV: Aguilar Anfrons, Enrique Modesto
    Palabras clave: 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
    Resumen: 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.
    Grupo de investigación: Centre en Canvi Climàtic (C3)
    Áreas temáticas: Meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ciencias sociales Atmospheric science
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Direcció de correo del autor: enric.aguilar@urv.cat
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-8384-377X
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-07-27
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Climate. 9 (11):
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2021
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
  • Palabras clave:

    Atmospheric Science,Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
    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
    Meteorology & atmospheric sciences
    Ciencias sociales
    Atmospheric science
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