Critical rainfall conditions for the initiation of torrential flows: results from the Rebaixader catchment (Central Pyrenees) [PDF]
, 2016 Torrential flows like debris flows or debris floods are fast movements formed by a mix of water and different amounts of unsorted solid material. They generally occur in steep torrents and pose high risk in mountainous areas.
Abanco Martínez de Arenzana, Claudia +3 more
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Critical transitions in rainfall manipulation experiments on grasslands
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 As a result of climate and land‐use changes, grasslands have been subjected to intensifying drought regimes. Extreme droughts could interfere in the positive feedbacks between grasses and soil water content, pushing grasslands across critical thresholds ...
Ilaíne S. Matos +3 more
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Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2023 Satellite rainfalls are good options to overcome shorter records, record challenges and inconsistencies with rain-gauges. However, satellites' rainfall retrieval algorithms are region-time scale specific; hence, the key concern is selection of ...
Kehase Neway Gebretsadkan +2 more
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International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, 2023 Two critical factors, namely intense precipitation and intricate excavation, can trigger rock mass disasters in mining operations. In this study, an indoor rainfall system was developed to precisely regulate the flow and intensity of precipitation.
Xiaoshuang Li +6 more
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Rainfall analysis in mountain streams affected by torrential floods on Madeira Island, Portugal [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesTorrential floods are powerful and destructive events that result from a mix of debris and water moving rapidly down steep channels in mountainous areas. They are normally triggered by heavy rainfall.
S. Lopes, M. Fragoso, E. Reis
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Rainfall-oriented resilient design for slope system: Resilience-enhancing strategies
Soils and Foundations, 2023 The concept of resilience has been extensively investigated for various systems to assess and reduce risk in dynamic environments. However, universal rainfall-resilient design criteria for artificially designed and naturally shaped slope systems have ...
Yu Huang, Zhengying He
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Geometric model for the critical-value problem of nucleation phenomena containing the size effect of nucleating agent [PDF]
, 2005 Nucleation is of great concern in many cases—for example, the production of artificial rainfall and the synthesis of advanced amorphous alloys. Although exact solutions have been well known to both homogeneous nucleation and heterogeneous nucleation ...
Johnson, W. L., Xu, Donghua
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Rainfall frequency analysis for ungauged sites using satellite precipitation products [PDF]
, 2017 The occurrence of extreme rainfall events and their impacts on hydrologic systems and society are critical considerations in the design and management of a large number of water resources projects.
Gado, TA, Hsu, K, Sorooshian, S
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Testing Universality in Critical Exponents: the Case of Rainfall
, 2016 One of the key clues to consider rainfall as a self-organized critical phenomenon is the existence of power-law distributions for rain-event sizes. We have studied the problem of universality in the exponents of these distributions by means of a suitable
Corral, Alvaro +2 more
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Atmospheric circulation patterns, cloud-to-ground lightning, and locally intense convective rainfall associated with debris flow initiation in the Dolomite Alps of northeastern Italy [PDF]
, 2015 The Dolomite Alps of northeastern Italy experience debris flows with great frequency during the summer months. An ample supply of unconsolidated material on steep slopes and a summer season climate regime characterized by recurrent thunderstorms combine ...
Berti, Metteo +6 more
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