The Potential Role of Climate Indices to Explain Floods, Mass-Movement Events and Wildfires in Southern Italy

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 regio...

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Autores principales:	Roberto Coscarelli, Enric Aguilar, Olga Petrucci, Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Fabio Zimbo
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Materias:	climate indices sectorial indices comparison Calabria (southern Italy) Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fd0232fedc594bd6ab92a4d544e5f7092021-11-25T17:15:16ZThe Potential Role of Climate Indices to Explain Floods, Mass-Movement Events and Wildfires in Southern Italy10.3390/cli91101562225-1154https://doaj.org/article/fd0232fedc594bd6ab92a4d544e5f7092021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/9/11/156https://doaj.org/toc/2225-1154Climate 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.Roberto CoscarelliEnric AguilarOlga PetrucciSergio M. Vicente-SerranoFabio ZimboMDPI AGarticleclimate indicessectorial indicescomparisonCalabria (southern Italy)ScienceQENClimate, Vol 9, Iss 156, p 156 (2021)
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spellingShingle	climate indices sectorial indices comparison Calabria (southern Italy) Science Q Roberto Coscarelli Enric Aguilar Olga Petrucci Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Fabio Zimbo The Potential Role of Climate Indices to Explain Floods, Mass-Movement Events and Wildfires in Southern Italy
description	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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author	Roberto Coscarelli Enric Aguilar Olga Petrucci Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Fabio Zimbo
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title	The Potential Role of Climate Indices to Explain Floods, Mass-Movement Events and Wildfires in Southern Italy
title_short	The Potential Role of Climate Indices to Explain Floods, Mass-Movement Events and Wildfires in Southern Italy
title_full	The Potential Role of Climate Indices to Explain Floods, Mass-Movement Events and Wildfires in Southern Italy
title_fullStr	The Potential Role of Climate Indices to Explain Floods, Mass-Movement Events and Wildfires in Southern Italy
title_full_unstemmed	The Potential Role of Climate Indices to Explain Floods, Mass-Movement Events and Wildfires in Southern Italy
title_sort	potential role of climate indices to explain floods, mass-movement events and wildfires in southern italy
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/fd0232fedc594bd6ab92a4d544e5f709
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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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