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View article: Reanalysis Data in Hydrological Applications: A Case Study from Georgia
Reanalysis Data in Hydrological Applications: A Case Study from Georgia Open
Reanalysis data have proven to be a valuable support for hydrologic modeling and calculation of standardized climate indices, useful tools for characterizing local climate regimes and improving water resource management in areas with limit…
View article: Rainfall extremes and their impacts: from the local to the National Scale. The INTENSE project. 
Rainfall extremes and their impacts: from the local to the National Scale. The INTENSE project.  Open
This study describes the activities developed within the project “raINfall exTremEs and their impacts: from the local to the National ScalE (INTENSE)”, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) and by the …
View article: Exploiting EGMS data in a thickness inversion methodology to enhance shallow landslide assessment
Exploiting EGMS data in a thickness inversion methodology to enhance shallow landslide assessment Open
Physically-based models for rainfall-triggered landslides enhance understanding of the interactions between rainfall, soil hydrology, and slope stability. Pre-event landslide modeling presents significant challenges, primarily due to uncer…
View article: Delineating conditionally stable areas and critical soil water content maps for initiation of rainfall-induced landslides 
Delineating conditionally stable areas and critical soil water content maps for initiation of rainfall-induced landslides  Open
Initiation of rainfall-induced landslides is intricately linked to hydrological conditions, mainly soil water content (SWC), which directly reflects precipitation intensity and patterns. Initiation may occur only on areas that are suscepti…
View article: Analysis of high-resolution rain records in FVG, northeastern Italy
Analysis of high-resolution rain records in FVG, northeastern Italy Open
The Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) region, northeastern Italy, records the heaviest precipitation annual totals of the country. The region counts on a dense ground-station network constituted by 2 main rain-gauges networks, whose sampling fre…
View article: Modeling the impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico with an eco-hydrological landslide model
Modeling the impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico with an eco-hydrological landslide model Open
This study proposes an advanced hydrologic/landslide modeling application to assess the spatial distribution of rainfall-induced landslides for a sub-basin in central Puerto Rico. The framework implements a stability component into a spati…
View article: Combining a data-driven approach with seasonal forecast data to predict reservoir water volume in the Mediterranean area
Combining a data-driven approach with seasonal forecast data to predict reservoir water volume in the Mediterranean area Open
Prolonged droughts and water scarcity have become more frequent in recent years, exacerbating the problem of artificial reservoir management in the Mediterranean area. This study proposes a methodology that combines a Nonlinear AutoRegress…
View article: High-resolution rain analysis in FVG, Northeastern Italy
High-resolution rain analysis in FVG, Northeastern Italy Open
<p>The Julian Alps, located in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (<em>FVG, </em>Northeastern Italy), record the heaviest precipitation annual totals in the country. Due to the complex orography and several other prone f…
View article: Assessing the solid-liquid discharge and rheological behavior of debris flow. A numerical model of a case study.
Assessing the solid-liquid discharge and rheological behavior of debris flow. A numerical model of a case study. Open
<p>The Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) region, located in the northeast of Italy, is characterised by frequent heavy precipitations that recurrently trigger debris flow phenomena. On August 2003, an intense rainfall concentrated in the n…
View article: Preliminary analysis of high-resolution precipitation in Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Italy
Preliminary analysis of high-resolution precipitation in Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Italy Open
<p>The northeastern area of Italy, and specifically of Friuli Venezia Giulia region (<em>FVG</em>), is characterized by the heaviest precipitation annual totals in the country. Effects of both prolonged and extreme precip…
View article: Modeling the additional root cohesion of four sub-tropical shrub and tree species
Modeling the additional root cohesion of four sub-tropical shrub and tree species Open
<p>&#160;The effect of plant roots on hillslope stabilization against rainfall-induced shallow landslides depends on the mutual interaction between biotechnical characteristics of the root system (i.e., root length, root tensile …
View article: Combining a data-driven approach with seasonal forecasts data to predicting reservoir water volume in the Mediterranean area.
Combining a data-driven approach with seasonal forecasts data to predicting reservoir water volume in the Mediterranean area. Open
<p>Artificial reservoirs are one of the main water supply resources in the Mediterranean areas; their management can be strongly affected by the problems of drought and water scarcity. The reservoir water level is the result of the h…
View article: Calibrating a semi-distributed hydrological model on Fella river basin (Italian Alps)
Calibrating a semi-distributed hydrological model on Fella river basin (Italian Alps) Open
<p>The Northeastern Italy and the therein Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) region are frequently hit by heavy and prolonged precipitations, which cause frequent debris flow and diffused shallow landslides. In this study we focus on a moun…
View article: Droughts Prediction: a Methodology Based on Climate Seasonal Forecasts
Droughts Prediction: a Methodology Based on Climate Seasonal Forecasts Open
This study proposes a methodology for the drought assessment based on the seasonal forecasts. These are climate predictions of atmospheric variables, such as precipitation, temperature, wind speed, for upcoming season, up to 7 months. In r…
View article: Estimating additional root cohesion by exploiting a root topological model based on Leonardo&#8217;s Rule
Estimating additional root cohesion by exploiting a root topological model based on Leonardo’s Rule Open
<p>Root topological models are schematic representations of the root structure based on a defined topology graph theory. In the context of hillslope stabilization modeling against rainfall-induced shallow landslides, the root topolog…
View article: Relationship Between Extreme Rainfall and Surface Temperature in Sicily (Italy)
Relationship Between Extreme Rainfall and Surface Temperature in Sicily (Italy) Open
The study of the relationship between extreme rainfall events and surface temperature represents an important issue in hydrology and meteorology and it could be of capital importance for evaluating the effect of global warming on future pr…
View article: A Multi-Hazard Extreme Climate Index across Europe
A Multi-Hazard Extreme Climate Index across Europe Open
The ECI is a multi-hazard index which has been developed in the context of the eXtreme Climate Facilities (XCF) project lead by ARC (African Risk Capacity) with the objective of detecting the occurrence of climate extremes over the African…
View article: A simple scaling procedure to assess the impact of climate change on extreme precipitation
A simple scaling procedure to assess the impact of climate change on extreme precipitation Open
In this study we used the products of the Regional Climate Models (RCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate alterations on extreme events across the Region of Sicily (Italy). Data have been retrieved from EURO-CORDEX simulations at 12 km of…
View article: Modeling the hydrological and mechanical effect of roots on shallow landslides
Modeling the hydrological and mechanical effect of roots on shallow landslides Open
This study proposes a new methodology for estimating the additional shear strength (or cohesion) exerted by vegetation roots on slope stability analysis within a coupled hydrological‐stability model. The mechanical root cohesion is estimat…
View article: The SESAMO early warning system for rainfall-triggered landslides
The SESAMO early warning system for rainfall-triggered landslides Open
The development of Web-based information systems coupled with advanced monitoring systems could prove to be extremely useful in landslide risk management and mitigation. A new frontier in the field of rainfall-triggered landslides (RTLs) l…
View article: Accounting for soil parameter uncertainty in a physically based and distributed approach for rainfall-triggered landslides
Accounting for soil parameter uncertainty in a physically based and distributed approach for rainfall-triggered landslides Open
In this study we propose a probabilistic approach for coupled distributed hydrological-hillslope stability models that accounts for soil
\nparameters uncertainty at basin scale. The geotechnical and soil retention curve parameters are trea…