Storminess and Environmental Change: Climate Forcing and Responses in the Mediterranean Region

286 Pages·2014·9.5 MB·English

by  Nazzareno Diodato

Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
Nazzareno Diodato
Gianni Bellocchi E ditors
Storminess and
Environmental
Change
Climate Forcing and Responses in the
Mediterranean Region
Storminess and Environmental Change
Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
Volume 39
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Nazzareno Diodato (cid:129) Gianni Bellocchi
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Storminess and
Environmental Change
Climate Forcing and Responses
in the Mediterranean Region
Editors
NazzarenoDiodato GianniBellocchi
HyMexNetwork GrasslandEcosystemResearchUnit
MetEuropeanResearchObservatory FrenchNationalInstituteofAgricultural
Benevento,Italy Research
Clermont-Ferrand,France
ISSN1878-9897 ISSN2213-6959(electronic)
ISBN978-94-007-7947-1 ISBN978-94-007-7948-8(eBook)
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Preface
The importance of studies on storminess and their effects has enlarged during
the last decades, as the frequency and magnitude of hydrological disasters are
enormouslyincreasedinmanyplaces.
The book is an excellent overview of the storminess action on the Earth, with
particular care on the erosivity and environmental changes in the Mediterranean
area. As known, this area is one of the most hit zones of the world because of its
climateandurbanconditions.Flashfloods,debrisflows,landslidesanderosion,but
also droughts and deterioration of the environment, are constant menaces for the
safetyintheMediterraneanarea.
Only recently, twomain events hitthe town ofGenua(4November 2011) and
some villages of North-Eastern Sicily (22 November 2012), causing deaths and
urban and agricultural devastation. As these recent events highlight, we are still
unabletoforecasttheseeventstoavoidorlimittheirdamages.Thus,studiesinthis
fieldareveryimportant.
Observations and model development have been described in Part I, whereas
erosivity has been analysed in Part II. Some aspects about the environmental
changesaredescribedinPartIII,wherespecificsites-exampleshavebeenanalysed.
Thankstolongdatainformation,PartIVdescribesthehistoricalclimatologyevents
for some Italian zones, and proposes an attempt to forecast the storminess in
Naplesarea.
Alltopicsarerelevant,andIwishthatthisbookwillearnthedeservedinterest
insidethescientificandmanagement/governmentcommunities,asitcollectsmany
dataandexamples,andshowsusefulmethodsoftesting.
ProfessorofGeologicalEngineering FrancescoFiorillo
UniversityofSannio,Benevento,Italy
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Contents
1 Introduction. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . 1
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PartI ObservationsandModelDevelopment
2 ExtremeRainfallsintheMediterraneanArea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
LuigiMarianiandSimoneGabrieleParisi
3 RainfallsandStormErosivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
NazzarenoDiodatoandMarcellaSoriano
4 FindingSimplicityinStormErosivityModelling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
NazzarenoDiodatoandGiuseppeAronica
5 CharacteristicsofFlashFloodRegimes
intheMediterraneanRegion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
MarcoBorgaandEfratMorin
Part II StorminessandErosivityModelling
6 SpatialPatternProbabilitiesExceedingCritical
ThresholdofAnnualMeanStorm-Erosivity
inEuro-MediterraneanAreas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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7 LandscapeScalesofErosiveStormHazardAcross
theMediterraneanRegion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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8 MonthlyErosiveStormHazardWithinRiverBasins
oftheCampaniaRegion,SouthernItaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
NazzarenoDiodato,GiovanniBattistaChirico,andNunzioRomano
9 Storm-ErosivityModelforAddressingHydrological
EffectivenessinFrance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
GianniBellocchiandNazzarenoDiodato
10 ModellingLong-TermStormErosivityTime-Series:
ACaseStudyintheWesternSwissPlateau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
NazzarenoDiodato,GianniBellocchi,KatrinMeusburger,
andGabrieleButtafuoco
11 TemporalandSpatialPatternsinDesign–Storm
ErosivityOverSicilyRegion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
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PartIII StorminessandEnvironmentalChange
12 HistoricalReconstructionofErosiveStormsDriving
DamagingHydrologicalEventsintheBoneaBasin,
SouthernItaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
NazzarenoDiodato,GianniBellocchi,FrancescoFiorillo,
andAntoniaLongobardi
13 TriggeringConditionsandRunoutSimulation
oftheSanMangosulCaloreDebrisAvalanche,
SouthernItaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
LuigiGuerriero,PaolaRevellino,AldoDeVito,GerardoGrelle,
andFrancescoMariaGuadagno
14 Climate-ScaleModellingofRainstorm-InducedOrganic
CarbonLossesinLand-SoilofThuneAlpineAreas,
Switzerland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
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15 HydroclimatologicalModellingofOrganicCarbon
DissolutioninLakeMaggiore,NorthernItaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
GianniBellocchiandNazzarenoDiodato
PartIV HistoryandPerspective
16 ADigressionontheAnalysisofHistoricalSeries
ofDailyDatafortheCharacterization
ofPrecipitationDynamics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
MariaTeresaLanfrediandMariaMacchiato
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17 HistoricalClimatologyofStormEventsintheMediterranean:
ACaseStudyofDamagingHydrologicalEvents
inCalabria,SouthernItaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
OlgaPetrucciandAngelaAuroraPasqua
18 StorminessForecastSkillsinNaples,SouthernItaly. . . . . . . . . . . . 269
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Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281