[HTML][HTML] Mediterranean cyclones: Current knowledge and open questions on dynamics, prediction, climatology and impacts

E Flaounas, S Davolio, S Raveh-Rubin… - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
A large number of intense cyclones occur every year in the Mediterranean basin, one of the
climate change hotspots. Producing a broad range of severe socio-economic and …

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: Perspectives for critical zone science and research on socio‐ecosystems

O Fovet, A Belemtougri, L Boithias… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are now recognized to support specific
freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services and represent approximately half of the …

Toward street‐level nowcasting of flash floods impacts based on HPC hydrodynamic modeling at the watershed scale and high‐resolution weather radar data

P Costabile, C Costanzo, J Kalogiros… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In our era, the rapid increase of parallel programming coupled with high‐performance
computing (HPC) facilities allows for the use of two‐dimensional shallow water equation (2D …

MED-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean climate studies

PM Ruti, S Somot, F Giorgi, C Dubois… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Mediterranean is expected to be one of the most prominent and vulnerable climate
change “hotspots” of the twenty-first century, and the physical mechanisms underlying this …

Crowdsourced data for flood hydrology: Feedback from recent citizen science projects in Argentina, France and New Zealand

J Le Coz, A Patalano, D Collins, NF Guillén… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
New communication and digital image technologies have enabled the public to produce
large quantities of flood observations and share them through social media. In addition to …

HyMeX-SOP1: The field campaign dedicated to heavy precipitation and flash flooding in the northwestern Mediterranean

V Ducrocq, I Braud, S Davolio, R Ferretti… - Bulletin of the …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Mediterranean region is frequently affected by heavy precipitation events associated
with flash floods, landslides, and mudslides that cause hundreds of millions of euros in …

Pan-European climate at convection-permitting scale: a model intercomparison study

S Berthou, EJ Kendon, SC Chan, N Ban, D Leutwyler… - Climate Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
We investigate the effect of using convection-permitting models (CPMs) spanning a pan-
European domain on the representation of precipitation distribution at a climatic scale. In …

An integrated approach of ground and aerial observations in flash flood disaster investigations. The case of the 2017 Mandra flash flood in Greece

M Diakakis, E Andreadakis, EI Nikolopoulos… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract On November 15, 2017, a high intensity convective storm, reaching 300 mm in 13 h
in the core zone of the event, hit the western part of the region of Attica in Greece, causing a …

Modelling Mediterranean heavy precipitation events at climate scale: an object-oriented evaluation of the CNRM-AROME convection-permitting regional climate …

C Caillaud, S Somot, A Alias, I Bernard-Bouissières… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Modelling the rare but high-impact Mediterranean Heavy Precipitation Events (HPEs) at
climate scale remains a largely open scientific challenge. The issue is adressed here by …

Extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean: Spatiotemporal characteristics and connection to large‐scale atmospheric flow patterns

N Mastrantonas, P Herrera‐Lormendez… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Mediterranean region is strongly affected by extreme precipitation events (EPEs),
sometimes leading to severe negative impacts on society, economy, and the environment …