The coastal vulnerability along the Mediterranean coasts is increasing, especially in
response to the occurrence of tropical-like cyclones, known as Medicanes, which have …

Extreme atmospheric-marine events, known as medicanes (short for “Mediterranean
hurricanes”), have affected the Mediterranean basin in recent years, resulting in extensive …

Over the last few years, several authors have presented contrasting models to describe the
response of boulders to extreme waves, but the absence of direct observation of movements …

In recent decades, renewable energy projects have required careful consideration of
environmental factors. This study investigates the impact of a mid-latitude cyclone on …

This Special Issue of the Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) entitled
“Advances in Meteorological Hazards and Extreme Events” hosts fifteen (15) selected …

This work aims at presenting TITAM, a time-independent tracking algorithm specifically
suited for medicanes. In the last decades, the study of medicanes has been repeatedly …

Cyclonic fields are violent atmospheric disturbances associated with swirling winds. These
quasi‐stochastic fields are the cause of many natural disasters, which motivate early …

The so-called Medicanes (Mediterranean hurricanes) are mesoscale and warm-core
Cyclones that show great similarities with Tropical Cyclones. Due to the difference in sea …

Disasters are defined by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk
Reduction (UNISDR, 2005) as “a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a …

A towering cumulus cloud with strong updrafts and downdrafts, accompanied by lightning
and thunder, is called a thunderstorm. It is driven by convection, in which moist warm air …