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  • Open Access
14 Citations
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25 March 2020

In many studies of landsurface processes, the intensity of rainfall events is expressed with clock-period indexes such as I30, the wettest 30-minute interval within a rainfall event. Problematically, the value of I30 cannot be estimated for rainfall...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,369 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2021

Currently, it is a hot research topic to retrieve the wave parameters by using X-band marine radar. However, the rainfall noise usually exists in the collected marine radar images, which seriously interferes with the extraction of the wave parameters...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Vibroacoustics and Aeroacustics of Marine, Aerospace and Automotive Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,574 Views
23 Pages

Assessment of Rainfall Kinetic-Energy–Intensity Relationships

  • Claudio Mineo,
  • Elena Ridolfi,
  • Benedetta Moccia,
  • Fabio Russo and
  • Francesco Napolitano

25 September 2019

Raindrop-impact-induced erosion starts when detachment of soil particles from the surface results from an expenditure of raindrop energy. Hence, rain kinetic energy is a widely used indicator of the potential ability of rain to detach soil. Although...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,161 Views
15 Pages

2 December 2025

This paper presents an innovative derivation of intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) curves, which play a crucial role in the design of hydraulic infrastructures. IDF curves are herein derived from excess rainfall, that is, the net rainfall...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,705 Views
10 Pages

Effects of Rainfall Intensity and Duration on the First Flush from Parking Lots

  • Kenneth C. Schiff,
  • Liesl L. Tiefenthaler,
  • Steven M. Bay and
  • Darrin J. Greenstein

28 July 2016

Urban stormwater with large impervious (paved) areas often produces runoff with a variety of contaminants. Although southern California is among the most urbanized coastal areas in the United States, the effect of rainfall variations on washoff effic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Drainage and Urban Stormwater Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,661 Views
34 Pages

27 September 2023

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 abilities and limitations of each are discussed. No standard or optimum met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
784 Views
20 Pages

Hydrological and Pollutant Export Responses to Rainfall Intensity in Paddy Fields

  • Zhenbo Chen,
  • Zhihong Liu,
  • Jiale Guo,
  • Jiaqi Li and
  • Yufeng Wu

4 February 2026

Agricultural non-point-source pollution poses a significant threat to water quality and sustainable water resource management, a challenge intensified by climate change-induced increases in rainfall intensity. In this study, we quantified how rainfal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,382 Views
12 Pages

9 February 2020

An urban flood in the Sadang area located in South Korea was reproduced using a rainfall simulator. The rainfall simulator was developed to be able to demonstrate the rainfall intensity in range of 80–200 mm/h, and the artificial rainfall was c...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,788 Views
16 Pages

10 April 2019

Riverbank failure often occurs in the rainy season, with effects from some main processes such as rainfall infiltration, the fluctuation of the river water level and groundwater table, and the deformation of transient seepage. This paper has the obje...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rainfall Infiltration Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
549 Views
27 Pages

9 August 2026

Reliable rainfall regionalization underpins hydrological design and the transfer of rainfall information to ungauged or short-record sites, yet it is especially difficult in arid regions with strong spatial and temporal variability and short, uneven...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,934 Views
16 Pages

13 April 2018

In recent years, many scientific methods have been used to prove that the Earth’s climate is changing. Climate change can affect rainfall patterns, which can in turn affect slope safety. Therefore, this study analyzed the effects of climate change on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landslide Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,659 Views
25 Pages

Evaluation of the WRF Model to Simulate a High-Intensity Rainfall Event over Kampala, Uganda

  • Yakob Umer,
  • Janneke Ettema,
  • Victor Jetten,
  • Gert-Jan Steeneveld and
  • Reinder Ronda

23 March 2021

Simulating high-intensity rainfall events that trigger local floods using a Numerical Weather Prediction model is challenging as rain-bearing systems are highly complex and localized. In this study, we analyze the performance of the Weather Research...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrometeorological Forecasting Using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model)
  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
9,748 Views
25 Pages

Uncertainty in Rainfall Intensity Duration Frequency Curves of Peninsular Malaysia under Changing Climate Scenarios

  • Muhammad Noor,
  • Tarmizi Ismail,
  • Eun-Sung Chung,
  • Shamsuddin Shahid and
  • Jang Hyun Sung

28 November 2018

This study developed a methodological framework to update the rainfall intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves under climate change scenarios. A model output statistics (MOS) method is used to downscale the daily rainfall of general circulation mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,220 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2019

Rainfall intensity extremes are relevant to many aspects of climatology, climate change, and landsurface processes. Intensity is described and analysed using a diversity of approaches, reflecting its importance in these diverse areas. The characteris...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,126 Views
17 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Developed Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency Curves for Erbil with Other Iraqi Urban Areas

  • Dalshad Ahmed Kareem,
  • Aumed Rahman M Amen,
  • Andam Mustafa,
  • Mehmet Ishak Yüce and
  • Michał Szydłowski

29 January 2022

Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) relationships are widely used in water infrastructure design and construction. IDF curves represent the relationship between rainfall intensity, duration, and frequency, and are obtained by anal...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
999 Views
15 Pages

Influence of Rainfall Intensity on the Structural Behavior of Reinforced Soil Retaining Wall

  • Gao Qi,
  • Sihan Li,
  • Xiaoguang Cai,
  • Xinxin Li and ,
  • Zhijie Wang,
  • Hongbiao Gu and
  • Jin Sun
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 December 2025

The response mechanisms of reinforced soil retaining wall structures under rainfall infiltration are not fully understood, leading to insufficient design guidelines. This study investigates a modular reinforced soil retaining wall model employing con...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,153 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2019

Determining the amount of rainfall that will eventually become runoff and its pathway is a crucial process in hydrological modelling. We proposed a method to better estimate curve number by adding an additional component (AC) to better account for th...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,705 Views
16 Pages

A Rainfall Intensity Data Rescue Initiative for Central Chile Utilizing a Pluviograph Strip Charts Reader (PSCR)

  • Roberto Pizarro-Tapia,
  • Fernando González-Leiva,
  • Rodrigo Valdés-Pineda,
  • Ben Ingram and ,
  • Claudia Sangüesa and
  • Carlos Vallejos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 July 2020

To develop intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves, it is necessary to calculate annual maximum rainfall intensities for different durations. Traditionally, these intensities have been calculated from the analysis of traces recorded by rain gauges...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extreme Value Analysis of Short-Duration Rainfall and Intensity–Duration–Frequency Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,363 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Numerous Kinetic Energy-Rainfall Intensity Equations Using Disdrometer Data

  • Linh Nguyen Van,
  • Xuan-Hien Le,
  • Giang V. Nguyen,
  • Minho Yeon and ,
  • May-Thi Tuyet Do and
  • Giha Lee
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 December 2022

Calculating rainfall erosivity, which is the capacity of rainfall to dislodge soil particles and cause erosion, requires the measurement of the rainfall kinetic energy (KE). Direct measurement of KE has its own challenges, owing to the high cost and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate and Environmental Changes Monitored by Satellite Remote Sensing II)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,806 Views
7 Pages

27 October 2023

Rainfall intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) relationships are crucial in the design and management of hydraulic structures. At the core of the assumption for IDF development is that the statistics of past rainfall events will represent fu...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 4th International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
10,774 Views
15 Pages

Effects of the Rainfall Intensity and Slope Gradient on Soil Erosion and Nitrogen Loss on the Sloping Fields of Miyun Reservoir

  • Lei Wang,
  • Yan Li,
  • Jiajun Wu,
  • Zhizhuang An and ,
  • Linna Suo,
  • Jianli Ding,
  • Shuo Li,
  • Dan Wei and
  • Liang Jin
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

17 January 2023

Environmental loss is primarily caused by soil, water, and nutrient loss, and runoff is associated with nutrient transport and sediment loss. Most existing studies have focused on one influencing factor, namely slope gradient or rainfall intensity, f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water and Nitrogen Management in Soil-Crop System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,013 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2025

To mitigate the loss of surface runoff and deep percolation in the water-scarce area and enhance the utilization of rainfall resources, this study adaptively determines the soil water content threshold triggering such losses by incorporating rainfall...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,493 Views
17 Pages

2 June 2026

Rainfall contributes to slope instability when infiltrating water reduces matric suction and elevates pore water pressure beyond critical thresholds. Empirical rainfall intensity–duration (I-D) thresholds define the minimum rainfall conditions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landslide and Slope Stability Risk Assessment: Study of Rainfall-Induced Shallow Landslide)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,798 Views
15 Pages

6 December 2020

Despite the numerous contributions available in the literature about the wind-induced bias of rainfall intensity measurements, adjustments based on collection efficiency curves are rarely applied operationally to rain records obtained from catching-t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precipitation Measurement Instruments: Calibration, Accuracy and Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,887 Views
19 Pages

Scaling Properties of Rainfall as a Basis for Intensity–Duration–Frequency Relationships and Their Spatial Distribution in Catalunya, NE Spain

  • María del Carmen Casas-Castillo,
  • Alba Llabrés-Brustenga,
  • Raül Rodríguez-Solà,
  • Anna Rius and
  • Àngel Redaño

8 February 2025

The spatial distribution of rainfall intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) values, essential for hydrological applications, were estimated for Catalunya, Spain. From a larger database managed by the Meteorological Service of Catalunya and af...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Flood Risk Assessment and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
14,095 Views
19 Pages

Effects of Rainfall Intensity and Slope Gradient on Runoff and Soil Moisture Content on Different Growing Stages of Spring Maize

  • Wenbin Mu,
  • Fuliang Yu,
  • Chuanzhe Li,
  • Yuebo Xie and ,
  • Jiyang Tian,
  • Jia Liu and
  • Nana Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 June 2015

The rainfall-runoff process (RRP) is an important part of hydrologic process. There is an effective measure to study RRP through artificial rainfall simulation. This paper describes a study on three growing stages (jointing stage, tasseling stage, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,543 Views
18 Pages

25 May 2022

This study aims to develop the intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) curves for Yangon, the economic center of Myanmar, using four satellite precipitation datasets, namely GPM IMERG, TRMM, GSMaP_NRT, and GSMaP_GC. Different probability distr...

(This article belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
14,741 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Slope, Rainfall Intensity and Mulch on Erosion and Infiltration under Simulated Rain on Purple Soil of South-Western Sichuan Province, China

  • Muhammad Naeem Khan,
  • Yuanbo Gong,
  • Tingxing Hu,
  • Rattan Lal and ,
  • Jiangkun Zheng,
  • Meta Francis Justine,
  • Muhammad Azhar,
  • Mingxuan Che and
  • Haitao Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

12 November 2016

Purple soil is widely distributed in the hilly areas of the Sichuan basin, southwest China, and is highly susceptible to water erosion. The triggering of this process is related to slope, rainfall intensity and surface cover. Therefore, this study as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,722 Views
19 Pages

Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curve for Extreme Rainfall Event Characterization, in the High Tropical Andes

  • Diego Escobar-González,
  • Mélany S. Singaña-Chasi,
  • Juan González-Vergara,
  • Bolívar Erazo and ,
  • Miguel Zambrano,
  • Darwin Acosta,
  • Marcos Villacís,
  • Mario Guallpa,
  • Braulio Lahuatte and
  • Diego H. Peluffo-Ordóñez
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

23 September 2022

In fields such as hydrology, meteorology, and civil engineering, the study of extreme precipitation events is useful to prevent rainfall related disasters. A widely-used practice to address such a problem is by using statistical inferences about prec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrometeorological Observation and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,320 Views
16 Pages

12 May 2024

Weather Report is an initiative from Weathernews Inc. to obtain sky images and current weather conditions from the users of its weather app. This approach can provide supplementary weather information to radar observations and can potentially improve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extreme Weather Detection, Attribution and Adaptation Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,747 Views
20 Pages

28 December 2025

Urban coastal areas along the Mediterranean are exposed to short-duration convective rainfall, producing infrastructure disruptions and flood-related impacts. This study analyzes 45 rainfall episodes in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona between 2014...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art in Severe Weather Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,184 Views
11 Pages

On the Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency Curves, Partial-Area Effect and the Rational Method: Theory and the Engineering Practice

  • José Nilson B. Campos,
  • Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart,
  • Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho and
  • Victor Costa Porto

30 September 2020

This research evaluates the partial-area effect and its relationship with the rainfall intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) equations. In the Rational Method, if the critical rainfall duration is shorter than the time of concentration, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Rainwater and Flood Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Views
24 Pages

Natural slopes commonly exhibit stratified soil profiles due to depositional and pedogenic processes, and differences in hydraulic properties between soil layers can affect rainfall infiltration and slope stability. However, conventional rainfall int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
414 Views
19 Pages

Effects of Rainfall Intensity and Slope Gradient on Runoff Pathways and Carbon–Nitrogen Transport on Grass-Covered Black Soil Slopes

  • Lei Wang,
  • Min Pang,
  • Yirui Zhang,
  • Qing Zhang and ,
  • Dan Wei,
  • Liang Jin and
  • Jialin Gu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

To elucidate the runoff generation pathways and associated carbon–nitrogen transport characteristics on grass-covered black soil slopes under varying rainfall intensities and slope gradients, a series of simulated rainfall experiments was condu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impact of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles on Agricultural Soil Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,658 Views
32 Pages

27 December 2025

Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) curves are essential tools in the design of stormwater management systems and are often used over long periods without frequent updates. However, the continuous collection of rainfall data and the expans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,370 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Rainfall Intensity and Slope on Runoff and Sediment Reduction Benefits of Fine Mesh Net on Construction Spoil Deposits

  • Chao Liu,
  • Kanghong Wang,
  • Linhai Gao,
  • Yarong Sun and ,
  • Qinxia Yang,
  • Bozhao Cao,
  • Lin Chen,
  • Dong Xue and
  • Jian Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

27 April 2022

Fine mesh nets (FMNs) are commonly used as a mulch material to control soil erosion in construction spoil deposits. Here, three rainfall intensities (60–120 mm·h−1) and seven slope gradients (5–35°) were considered in rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
12,271 Views
18 Pages

1 April 2020

Recurring landslides in the Western Ghats have become an important concern for authorities, considering the recent disasters that occurred during the 2018 and 2019 monsoons. Wayanad is one of the highly affected districts in Kerala State (India), whe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rainfall Thresholds and Other Approaches for Landslide Prediction and Early Warning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,112 Views
21 Pages

26 August 2021

Most areas around the world lack fine rainfall records which are needed to derive Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves, and those that are available are in the form of daily data. Thus, the disaggregation of rainfall data from coarse to fine tem...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
15,195 Views
22 Pages

Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency Relationship. Case Study: Depth-Duration Ratio in a Semi-Arid Zone in Mexico

  • Ena Gámez-Balmaceda,
  • Alvaro López-Ramos,
  • Luisa Martínez-Acosta,
  • Juan Pablo Medrano-Barboza and ,
  • John Freddy Remolina López,
  • Georges Seingier,
  • Luis Walter Daesslé and
  • Alvaro Alberto López-Lambraño
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 October 2020

Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) curves describe the relationship between rainfall intensity, rainfall duration, and return period. They are commonly used in the design, planning and operation of hydrologic, hydraulic, and water resourc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Modelling of Rainfall Fields)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,705 Views
14 Pages

29 March 2024

The inter-tip times (ITTs) of tipping-bucket rain gauges (TBRGs) potentially provide the highest-resolution intensity data that can be acquired from this type of gauge. At an intensity of 100 mm h−1, a typical gauge with a sensitivity of 0.2 mm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,309 Views
17 Pages

The MSG Technique: Improving Commercial Microwave Link Rainfall Intensity by Using Rain Area Detection from Meteosat Second Generation

  • Kingsley K. Kumah,
  • Joost C. B. Hoedjes,
  • Noam David,
  • Ben H. P. Maathuis and ,
  • H. Oliver Gao and
  • Bob Z. Su
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 August 2021

Commercial microwave link (MWL) used by mobile telecom operators for data transmission can provide hydro-meteorologically valid rainfall estimates according to studies in the past decade. For the first time, this study investigated a new method, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Precipitation Retrievals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,479 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2026

With the increasing frequency extreme weather events associated with climate change, real-time monitoring of rainfall intensity is critical for water resource management, disaster warning, and other applications. Traditional methods, such as ground-b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Response of Plateau Vegetation to Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,651 Views
15 Pages

Developing Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves Based on Rainfall Cumulative Distribution Frequency (CDF) for Can Tho City, Vietnam

  • Huynh Vuong Thu Minh,
  • Kim Lavane,
  • Le Thi Lanh,
  • Lam Van Thinh and ,
  • Nguyen Phuoc Cong,
  • Tran Van Ty,
  • Nigel K. Downes and
  • Pankaj Kumar
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

1 August 2022

Information on the relationship between rainfall intensity, duration and accumulation frequency or return period (IDF) is commonly utilized in the design and management of urban drainage systems. Can Tho City, located in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,022 Views
21 Pages

28 May 2021

This study analyzes the changes in rainfall intensities across Taiwan using the k-Nearest Neighbor method. Biases are corrected according to the identified discrepancy between the probability distribution of the model run and that of the observed dat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Resources Vulnerability and Resilience in a Changing Climate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,929 Views
16 Pages

13 March 2022

Realistic runoff estimates are crucial for the accurate design of stormwater drainage systems, particularly in developing urban catchments which are prone to overland flow and street inundation following extreme rainstorms. This paper derives new int...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,750 Views
29 Pages

25 May 2023

In this paper, a method for joint sea surface rainfall intensity (RI), wind speed, and wave height retrieval based on spaceborne global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) data is proposed, which especially considers the effects betwee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS Advanced Positioning Algorithms and Innovative Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,611 Views
19 Pages

Temporal variability of rainfall is extreme in the rangelands of northern Australia and occurs at annual, decadal, and even longer timescales. To maintain long-term productivity of the rangelands of northern Australia under highly variable rainfall c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precipitation Observations and Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,524 Views
22 Pages

23 November 2023

This study delved into the analysis of hourly observed as well as future precipitation data in the towns of Willoughby and Buffalo on the Lake Erie Coast to examine the variations in IDF relationships over the 21st century. Several regional climate m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrology and Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,140 Views
14 Pages

4 June 2020

The Soil Conservation Service curve number (SCS-CN) method has been widely used in rainfall-runoff modelling; however, the direct effects of rainfall intensities and duration, which are major factors in hydrological engineering design, on its paramet...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,163 Views
15 Pages

Spatial Heterogeneity of Summer Rainfall Trends over the Tibetan Plateau Contributed by Different Rainfall Intensities

  • Meirong Wang,
  • Xiuping Yao,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Boqi Liu and ,
  • Zhu Zhu,
  • Shunwu Zhou and
  • Jiashuang Yuan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 November 2023

Recent years have witnessed contrasting trends in summer total rainfall (STR) over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), with an increase in the northern and a decrease in the southern TP. This study identifies four significant centers of rainfall trends: easter...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

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