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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4525-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4525-2017
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Impact of rainfall spatial aggregation on the identification of debris flow occurrence thresholds
Francesco Marra
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
Elisa Destro
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Davide Zoccatelli
Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Jean Dominique Creutin
Institut des Géosciences pour l'Environnement, Université de Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, Grenoble, France
Fausto Guzzetti
Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Perugia, Italy
Marco Borga
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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Short summary
Previous studies have reported a systematic underestimation of debris flow occurrence thresholds, due to the use of sparse networks in non-stationary rain fields. We analysed high-resolution radar data to show that spatially aggregated estimates (e.g. satellite data) largely reduce this issue, in light of a reduced estimation variance. Our findings are transferable to other situations in which lower envelope curves are used to predict point-like events in the presence of non-stationary fields.
Previous studies have reported a systematic underestimation of debris flow occurrence...