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Data description paper
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10 Oct 2025
Data description paper |
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Development of HYPER-P: HYdroclimatic PERformance-enhanced Precipitation at 1 km/daily over the Europe-Mediterranean region from 2007 to 2022
Paolo Filippucci
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National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Perugia, 06128, Italy
Luca Brocca
National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Perugia, 06128, Italy
Luca Ciabatta
National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Perugia, 06128, Italy
Hamidreza Mosaffa
National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Perugia, 06128, Italy
Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Francesco Avanzi
Cima Research Foundation, Savona, 17100, Italy
Christian Massari
National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Perugia, 06128, Italy
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Satellite and rain gauge data are tested to predict landslides in India, where the annual toll of human lives and loss of property urgently demands the implementation of strategies to prevent geo-hydrological instability. For this purpose, we calculated empirical rainfall thresholds for landslide initiation. The validation of thresholds showed that satellite-based rainfall data perform better than ground-based data, and the best performance is obtained with an hourly temporal resolution.
Francesco Avanzi, Giulia Ercolani, Simone Gabellani, Edoardo Cremonese, Paolo Pogliotti, Gianluca Filippa, Umberto Morra di Cella, Sara Ratto, Hervè Stevenin, Marco Cauduro, and Stefano Juglair
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2109–2131, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-2109-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-2109-2021, 2021
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Precipitation tends to increase with elevation, but the magnitude and distribution of this enhancement remain poorly understood. By leveraging over 11 000 spatially distributed, manual measurements of snow depth (snow courses) upstream of two reservoirs in the western European Alps, we show that these courses bear a characteristic signature of orographic precipitation. This opens a window of opportunity for improved modeling accuracy and, ultimately, our understanding of the water budget.
Louise Mimeau, Yves Tramblay, Luca Brocca, Christian Massari, Stefania Camici, and Pascal Finaud-Guyot
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 653–669, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-653-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-653-2021, 2021
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Soil moisture is a key variable related to droughts and flood genesis, but little is known about the evolution of soil moisture under climate change. Here, using a simulation approach, we show that changes in soil moisture are driven by changes in precipitation intermittence rather than changes in precipitation intensity or in temperature.
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Accurate rainfall data is essential, yet measuring daily precipitation worldwide is challenging. This research presents HYdroclimatic PERformance-enhanced Precipitation (HYPER-P), a dataset combining satellite, ground, and reanalysis data to estimate precipitation at a 1 km scale from 2000 to 2022. HYPER-P improves accuracy, especially in areas with few rain gauges. This dataset supports scientists and decision-makers in understanding and managing water resources more effectively.
Accurate rainfall data is essential, yet measuring daily precipitation worldwide is challenging....
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