Open gridded climate datasets can help investigating the relation between meteorological anomalies and geomorphic hazards in mountainous areas

• DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104328
• Publication Date: 2023-12-07T18:00:59Z
• Authors: Roberta Paranunzio; Francesco Marra
• Keywords: Forcing (mathematics); Natural hazard

The initiation of geomorphic hazards in mountainous environments is highly susceptible to temperature and precipitation forcing. To assess future changes these hazards, statistical methods linking meteorological anomalies with the occurrence past can be employed. These are currently trained using long records from in-situ stations. This requires large efforts for data access, collection homogenisation, which severely limit scalability approaches. Here, we use a consolidated method vast catalogue occurred across Alpine range show that open-access datasets gridded satellite-based estimates used as surrogates observations. Further, find satellite capture leading debris flows missed by