TY - JOUR
T1 - The "perfect storm"
T2 - From across the Atlantic to the hills of Genoa
AU - Parodi, A.
AU - Boni, G.
AU - Ferraris, L.
AU - Siccardi, F.
AU - Pagliara, P.
AU - Trovatore, E.
AU - Foufoula-Georgiou, E.
AU - Kranzlmueller, D.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The city of Genoa, Italy, nestled between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apennine Mountains, was rocked by severe flash foods on 4 November 2011. About 500 millimeters of raina third of the average annual rainfallfell in 6 hours, killing six people and devastating the city center. A storm of this intensity is considered to be a multicentennial-return-period event. The torrential rainfall inflicted the worst disaster Genoa has experienced since October 1970, when a similar event killed 25 people. The peculiar fine-scale properties of this event motivate a comprehensive research effort in the field of predictability of severe rainfall processes over areas of complex orography.
AB - The city of Genoa, Italy, nestled between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apennine Mountains, was rocked by severe flash foods on 4 November 2011. About 500 millimeters of raina third of the average annual rainfallfell in 6 hours, killing six people and devastating the city center. A storm of this intensity is considered to be a multicentennial-return-period event. The torrential rainfall inflicted the worst disaster Genoa has experienced since October 1970, when a similar event killed 25 people. The peculiar fine-scale properties of this event motivate a comprehensive research effort in the field of predictability of severe rainfall processes over areas of complex orography.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84862565748
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U2 - 10.1029/2012EO240001
DO - 10.1029/2012EO240001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84862565748
SN - 0096-3941
VL - 93
SP - 225
EP - 226
JO - Eos
JF - Eos
IS - 24
ER -