Storminess and Environmental Change : Climate Forcing and Responses in the Mediterranean Region - Diodato, Nazzareno; Bellocchi, Gianni; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Introduction -- Extreme rainfalls in the Mediterranean area -- Rainfalls and storm erosivity -- Finding simplicity in storm erosivity modelling -- Characteristics of flash-flood regimes in the Mediterranean region -- Spatial pattern probabilities exceeding critical threshold of annual mean storm-erosivity in Euro-Mediterranean areas -- Landscape scales of erosive storm hazard  across the Mediterranean region -- Monthly erosive storm hazard within  river basins of the Campania Region, Southern Italy -- Storm-erosivity modelling for addressing hydrological effectiveness in France -- Modelling long-term storm erosivity time-series: a case study in the Western Swiss Plateau -- Temporal and spatial patterns in design-storm erosivity over Sicily Region -- Historical reconstruction of erosive storms driving damaging hydrological events in the Bonea Basin, Southern Italy -- Triggering conditions and runout simulation of the San Mango sul Calore debris avalanche, Southern Italy -- Climate-scale modelling of rainstorm-induced organic carbon losses in land-soil of Thune Alpine areas, Switzerland -- Hydroclimatological modelling of organic carbon dissolution in Lake Maggiore, Northern Italy -- A digression on the analysis of historical series of daily data for the characterization of precipitation dynamics -- Historical climatology of storm events in the Mediterranean: a case study damaging hydrological events in Calabria, Southern Italy -- Storminess forecast skills in Naples, Southern Italy.
Keywords: Natural disasters; Meteorology; Physical geography; Computer simulation; Geographical information systems; Natural Hazards; Meteorology; Earth System Sciences; Simulation and Modeling; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.