Search results for "Rainfall event"

Tillage Impacts on Initial Soil Erosion in Wheat and Sainfoin Fields under Simulated Extreme Rainfall Treatments

2021

The main aim of this research was to determine the potential effects of different tillage systems (TT: traditional tillage and RT: reduced tillage) on runoff and erosion at two different locations (Kahramanmaras and Tarsus, Southern Turkey) under (i) fallow, (ii) wheat (Triticumaestivum L.), and (iii) sainfoin (Onobrychissativa L.) crops. Rainfall simulations with intensity of 120 mm h&minus

Landslide susceptibility modelling for extreme rainfall-triggered multiple landslides: a key study from the 2009 event in the Giampilieri Area(Sicily…

2013

Evolución de episodios pluviométricos en la Demarcación Hidrográfica del Júcar (1989-2016): del recurso al riesgo

2020

Este trabajo aborda la clasificación y evolución diacrónica de los episodios de lluvia (1989-2016) en ambientes mediterráneos, en la Demarcación Hidrográfica del Júcar. En base a datos del SAIH, y siguiendo criterios hidrológicos, se seleccionan 698 episodios, que se caracterizan con indicadores de precipitación acumulada, intensidad y persistencia. Mediante un análisis cluster se identifican tres tipologías (episodios de recurso limitado, de gran recurso a largo plazo y de riesgo) y se analiza su evolución temporal, estableciendo diferencias entre los episodios de interior y de litoral. Los resultados muestran una tendencia hacia el incremento del riesgo en detrimento del recurso en los tr…

Investigating the Reliability of Stationary Design Rainfall in a Mediterranean Region under a Changing Climate

2023

Extreme rainfall events have been more frequent in recent decades, potentially as a climate change effect. This has been leading to a higher risk of the failure of existing hydraulic infrastructures, and to a higher awareness regarding the unreliability of design rainfall calculated with reference to historical data recorded in the last century. With this in mind, the present study questions the stationary assumption of the rainfall Depth–Duration–Frequency curves commonly used in Sicily, the biggest island of the Mediterranean Sea. Quantiles derived from the most up-to-date regional method, regarding Sicily, based on observations in the period 1928–2010, have been compared with those extra…

Mobility of plume-derived volcanogenic elements in meteoric water at Nyiragongo volcano (Congo) inferred from the chemical composition of single rain…

2017

The chemical composition of single rainfall events was investigated at Nyiragongo volcano (Democratic Republic of Congo) with the aim of determining the relative contributions of plume-derived elements. The different locations of the sampling sites allowed both plume-affected samples (hereafter referred to as “fumigated samples”) and samples representative of the local background to be collected. The chemical composition of the local background reflects the peculiar geographic features of the area, being influenced by biomass burning, geogenic dust, and biological activity. Conversely, fumigated samples contain large amounts of volcanogenic elements that can be clearly distinguished from th…

Climate and extreme rainfall events in the Mono river basin (West Africa): investigating future changes with Regional Climate Models.

2020

This study characterizes the future changes in extreme rainfall and air temperature in the Mono river basin where the main economic activity is weather dependent and local populations are highly vulnerable to natural hazards, including flood inundations. Daily precipitation and temperature from observational datasets and Regional Climate Models (RCMs) output from REMO, RegCM, HadRM3, and RCA were used to analyze climatic variations in space and time, and fit a GEV model to investigate the extreme rainfalls and their return periods. The results indicate that the realism of the simulated climate in this domain is mainly controlled by the choice of the RCMs. These RCMs projected a 1 to 1.5 &deg