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Historical reconstruction of erosive storms driving damaging hydrological events in the Bonea basin, Southern Italy
- Source :
- Storminess and environmental change: climate forcing and responses in the Mediterranean region, Storminess and environmental change: climate forcing and responses in the Mediterranean region, Editions Springer, pp.13, 2014, Storminess and Environmental Change ISBN: 9789400779471
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2014.
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Abstract
- This chapter presents an assessment of annual cumulative erosive storms driving Multiple Damaging Hydrological Events (MDHE) such as floods, landslides and accelerated slope erosion events. This was done in a Mediterranean area where difficulties arise in the reconstruction of the relation between storm erosivity, due to the lack of long detailed and homogeneous recorded time series. This gap has been filled in by merging historical precipitation data from European datasets (Pauling A, Luterbacher J, Casty C, Wanner H, Climate Dynam 26:387–405, 2006) with written proxy documents in which damaging hydrological events were recorded. The research was focused on the Bonea river basin, located in Southern Italy, where a large number of hydrological disasters has occurred (and documented) during the period 1700–2000. For this purpose, a parsimonious approach was used to develop a model named CESAM (Cumulative Erosive Storm Anomalies per Annum) from a previous erosivity anomalies equation and evaluated against erosivity data compatible with the RUSLE scheme. The historical climatology of the Bonea basin has shown pronounced interannual and interdecadal variations dependent on multi-decadal scale erosivity, reflecting the mixed population of thermo-convective and cyclonic rainstorms with large positive-and-high anomalies.
- Subjects :
- Historical climatology
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes
Population
0207 environmental engineering
Drainage basin
02 engineering and technology
Structural basin
01 natural sciences
020701 environmental engineering
education
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
education.field_of_study
geography.geographical_feature_category
Climat
Landslide
Storm
Environnement
Geography
Méditérranée
13. Climate action
Homogeneous
Climatology
Mediterranean area
Cartography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-94-007-7947-1
- ISBNs :
- 9789400779471
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Storminess and environmental change: climate forcing and responses in the Mediterranean region, Storminess and environmental change: climate forcing and responses in the Mediterranean region, Editions Springer, pp.13, 2014, Storminess and Environmental Change ISBN: 9789400779471
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e1d5e7e1ecbf5afd79ebb860bf0a5901