Extreme Rainfall and Floods in the Mediterranean Regions
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 13838
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrological extremes: floods and drought rainfall; rainfall–runoff modelling; uncertainty in forecasting, monitoring, and prediction; hydraulic network; granular flow
Interests: natural hazards; floods; landslides; physical geography; climate change; hydrological modeling; environmental impact assessment; water resource management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are many reasons to dedicate a Special Issue to Very Extreme Rainfall and Floods in the Mediterranean Regions (VERAFIM):
(i) The interaction between complex topography and convective meteorological phenomenology generates intense and small-scale phenomena, for which the quality of the magnitude and location predictions is still largely unsatisfactory, in the the monitoring network design and management phase, in the forecasting and construction phase of risk scenarios, and in the planning phase of structural and nonstructural interventions to mitigate their effects;
(ii) The high anthropic pressure on both shores of the Mediterranean accentuates the consequences of these phenomena, both in terms of damage and loss of human life;
(iii) Finally, recent results have indicated significant changes in the intensity and persistence of seasonality flooding across Europe and, in particular, in the Mediterranean.
This Special Issue is intended to be a moment that systematically brings together relevant and up-to-date information on the statistical, physiographic, and meteorological characteristics of VERAFIM and allows their effects to be analyzed both methodological and case studies points of view. Particular attention will be devoted to case studies on flood-related impact.
Prof. Paolo Villani
Prof. Olga Petrucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Very extreme rainfall and flooding
- Rainfall–runoff modelling
- Ground effect
- Erosion
- Inundation
- Monitoring, forecast, and prediction
- Uncertainty.