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Storminess and Environmental Change : Climate Forcing and Responses in the Mediterranean Region
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ISBN: 940077947X 9400779488 Year: 2014 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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This book describes recent developments in the modeling of hydro-climatological processes in time and space. The topic brings together a wide range of disciplines, such as climatology, hydrology, geomorphology and ecology, with examples of problems and related modeling approaches. Parsimonious hydro-climatological models hold the potential to simulate the combined effects of rainfall intensity and distribution patterns in the absence of precipitation records for short time intervals (e.g. daily to sub-hourly) and over large areas (e.g. regional to continental). In this book, we show how the principle of parsimony can be followed without sacrificing depth in seeking to understand a variety of landscape and surface processes that include hydrologic phenomena. Geographically speaking, the focus of the book is on Mediterranean environments. In this region, which is characterized by a complex morphology, soil erosion by water is a major cause of landscape degradation and the fragility of ecosystems is abundantly documented. By exploring interactions between erosive storms and land with the help of modeling solutions created at a variety of scales, the book investigates in detail the climatic implications for the Mediterranean landscape in an effort to bridge historical and contemporary research, which makes it unique in its approach. The book provides a valuable resource for environmental scientists, while also providing an important basis for graduate and postgraduate students interested in research on hydrological cycles and environmental changes.

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Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects. --- Climatic changes -- Social aspects. --- Global environmental change. --- Storms -- Mediterranean Region. --- Storms --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Global environmental change --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Earth sciences. --- Meteorology. --- Natural disasters. --- Physical geography. --- Computer simulation. --- Geographical information systems. --- Earth Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Earth System Sciences. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Change --- Ecology --- Natural disasters --- Weather --- Geology. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region. --- Environmental conditions. --- CATASTROPHES NATURELLES + DANGERS NATURELS --- CHANGEMENT GLOBAL + RÉCHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE (CLIMATOLOGIE) --- CLIMATE MODELS + PROXY DATA (CLIMATOLOGY) --- EROSION + CORROSION + WEATHERING (SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT) --- EROSION + KORROSION + VERWITTERUNG (ABLAGERUNGSMILIEU) --- GALES (METEOROLOGY) --- GLOBAL CHANGE + GLOBAL WARMING (CLIMATOLOGY) --- GLOBAL CHANGE + KLIMAERWÄRMUNG (KLIMATOLOGIE) --- ITALIE DU SUD --- KLIMAMODELLE + PROXY DATA (KLIMATOLOGIE) --- MEDITERRANEAN REGION (PHYSIOGEOGRAPHIC DESIGNATION) --- MITTELMEERGEBIET (PHYSIOGEOGRAPHISCHE ORTE) --- MODÈLES CLIMATOLOGIQUES + PROXY DATA (CLIMATOLOGIE) --- NATURAL HAZARDS + NATURAL CATASTROPHES --- NATURGEFAHREN + NATURKATASTROPHEN --- RÉGION MÉDITERRANÉENNE (LIEUX ET MILIEUX PHYSICO-GÉOGRAPHIQUES) --- SOUTHERN ITALY --- STÜRME (METEOROLOGIE) --- SÜDITALIEN --- TEMPÊTES (MÉTÉOROLOGIE) --- ÉROSION + CORROSION + ALTÉRATION (ENVIRONNEMENT SÉDIMENTAIRE) --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Geographic information systems.


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Rainfall Erosivity in Soil Erosion Processes
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ISBN: 3039288059 3039288040 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book gathers recent international research on the association between aggressive rainfall and soil loss and landscape degradation. Different contributions explore these complex relationships and highlight the importance of the spatial patterns of precipitation intensity on land flow under erosive storms, with the support of observational and modelling data. This is a large and multifaceted area of research of growing importance that outlines the challenge of protecting land from natural hazards. The increase in the number of high temporal resolution rainfall records together with the development of new modelling capabilities has opened up new opportunities for the use of large-scale planning and risk prevention methods. These new perspectives should no longer be considered as an independent research topic, but should, above all, support comprehensive land use planning, which is at the core of environmental decision-making and operations. Textbooks such as this one demonstrate the significance of how hydrological science can enable tangible progress in understanding the complexity of water management and its current and future challenges.


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Storminess and Environmental Change : Climate Forcing and Responses in the Mediterranean Region
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ISBN: 9789400779488 Year: 2014 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

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This book describes recent developments in the modeling of hydro-climatological processes in time and space. The topic brings together a wide range of disciplines, such as climatology, hydrology, geomorphology and ecology, with examples of problems and related modeling approaches. Parsimonious hydro-climatological models hold the potential to simulate the combined effects of rainfall intensity and distribution patterns in the absence of precipitation records for short time intervals (e.g. daily to sub-hourly) and over large areas (e.g. regional to continental). In this book, we show how the principle of parsimony can be followed without sacrificing depth in seeking to understand a variety of landscape and surface processes that include hydrologic phenomena. Geographically speaking, the focus of the book is on Mediterranean environments. In this region, which is characterized by a complex morphology, soil erosion by water is a major cause of landscape degradation and the fragility of ecosystems is abundantly documented. By exploring interactions between erosive storms and land with the help of modeling solutions created at a variety of scales, the book investigates in detail the climatic implications for the Mediterranean landscape in an effort to bridge historical and contemporary research, which makes it unique in its approach. The book provides a valuable resource for environmental scientists, while also providing an important basis for graduate and postgraduate students interested in research on hydrological cycles and environmental changes.

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