[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather and societal impacts in the eastern Mediterranean

A Hochman, F Marra, G Messori, JG Pinto… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
Gaining a holistic understanding of extreme weather, from its physical drivers to its impacts
on society and ecosystems, is key to supporting future risk reduction and preparedness …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in extreme daily precipitation over Africa: Insights from a non-asymptotic statistical approach

F Marra, V Levizzani, E Cattani - Journal of Hydrology X, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme precipitation heavily affects society and economy in Africa because it triggers
natural hazards and contributes large amounts of freshwater. Understanding past changes …

[HTML][HTML] Coastal and orographic effects on extreme precipitation revealed by weather radar observations

F Marra, M Armon, E Morin - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
The yearly exceedance probability of extreme precipitation of multiple durations is crucial for
infrastructure design, risk management, and policymaking. Local extremes emerge from the …

Recording Rainfall Intensity: Has an Optimum Method Been Found?

D Dunkerley - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Many design principles for rain gauges that have the capacity to record rainfall intensity
have been proposed or developed. These are here grouped into 15 categories, and the …

[HTML][HTML] Managing climate change impacts on the Western Mountain Aquifer: Implications for Mediterranean karst groundwater resources

L Bresinsky, J Kordilla, T Hector, I Engelhardt… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many studies highlight the decrease in precipitation due to climate change in the
Mediterranean region, making it a prominent hotspot. This study examines the combined …

The impact of extreme rainstorms on escarpment morphology in arid areas: Insights from the central Negev Desert

Y Shmilovitz, F Marra, Y Enzel, E Morin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of climate on topography, which is a theme in landscape evolution studies, has
been demonstrated, mostly, at mountain range scales and across climate zones. However …

Assessing the controlling factors on watershed soil erosion during intense rainstorm events using radar rainfall and process-based modeling

Y Shmilovitz, F Marra, H Wei, E Argaman, D Goodrich… - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
The evaluation of erosion risk in dry areas is challenging because erosion is often an
outcome of individual rainstorms and is highly dependent on rainfall spatiotemporal patterns …

On the Potentials and Limitations of Attributing a Small‐Scale Climate Event

D Matte, JH Christensen, H Feddersen… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intense convective storms can be hazardous when occurring over large populated cities. In
a changing climate, decision makers and the general public increasingly need to be able to …

Dynamical factors heavily modulate the future increase of sub‐daily extreme precipitation in the alpine‐mediterranean region

E Dallan, F Marra, G Fosser, M Marani… - Earth's Future, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the future probability of sub‐daily extreme precipitation in a changing climate is
crucial for risk management, engineering, and insurance. Kilometer‐scale convection …

Meteorological, impact and climate perspectives of the 29 June 2017 heavy precipitation event in the Berlin metropolitan area

A Caldas-Alvarez, M Augenstein… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
Extreme precipitation is a weather phenomenon with tremendous damaging potential for
property and human life. As the intensity and frequency of such events is projected to …