Contrasting rainfall-runoff characteristics of floods in desert and Mediterranean basins

Zoccatelli, Davide; Marra, Francesco; Armon, Moshe; Rinat, Yair; Smith, James A.; Morin, Efrat

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2665-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2665-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2665-2019

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21 Jun 2019

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Contrasting rainfall-runoff characteristics of floods in desert and Mediterranean basins

Davide Zoccatelli, Francesco Marra, Moshe Armon, Yair Rinat, James A. Smith, and Efrat Morin

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ED: Publish as is (04 May 2019) by Giuseppe Tito Aronica

Short summary

This study presents a comparison of flood properties over multiple Mediterranean and desert catchments. While in Mediterranean areas floods are related to rainfall amount, in deserts we observed a strong connection with the characteristics of the more intense part of storms. Because of the different mechanisms involved, despite having significantly shorter and more localized storms, deserts are able to produce floods with a magnitude comparable to Mediterranean areas.