Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4525-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4525-2017
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12 Sep 2017
Research article |  | 12 Sep 2017

Impact of rainfall spatial aggregation on the identification of debris flow occurrence thresholds

Francesco Marra, Elisa Destro, Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos, Davide Zoccatelli, Jean Dominique Creutin, Fausto Guzzetti, and Marco Borga

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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.