Building water resilience in the face of cascading wildfire risks

MF Belongia, C Hammond Wagner, KQ Seipp… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Severe wildfire is altering the natural and the built environment and posing risks to
environmental and societal health and well-being, including cascading impacts to water …

A review of applications of fractional calculus in Earth system dynamics

Y Zhang, HG Sun, HH Stowell, M Zayernouri… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fractional calculus has been used to model various hydrologic processes for 15 years. Yet,
there are still major gaps between real-world hydrologic dynamics and fractional-order …

Megafires in Chile 2017: Monitoring multiscale environmental impacts of burned ecosystems

F De la Barrera, F Barraza, P Favier, V Ruiz… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
During the summer of 2017, several megafires in South-Central Chile burned down forest
plantations, native forests, shrublands and human settlements. National authorities identified …

Creative computing with Landlab: an open-source toolkit for building, coupling, and exploring two-dimensional numerical models of Earth-surface dynamics

DEJ Hobley, JM Adams, SS Nudurupati… - Earth Surface …, 2017 - esurf.copernicus.org
The ability to model surface processes and to couple them to both subsurface and
atmospheric regimes has proven invaluable to research in the Earth and planetary sciences …

Runoff‐generated debris flows: Observation of initiation conditions and erosion–deposition dynamics along the channel at Cancia (eastern Italian Alps)

A Simoni, M Bernard, M Berti… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the Dolomitic region, abundant coarse hillslope sediment is commonly found at the toe of
rocky cliffs. Ephemeral channels originate where lower permeability bedrock surfaces …

Postwildfire soil‐hydraulic recovery and the persistence of debris flow hazards

MA Thomas, FK Rengers, JW Kean… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Deadly and destructive debris flows often follow wildfire, but understanding of changes in
the hazard potential with time since fire is poor. We develop a simulation‐based framework …

Multi‐model comparison of computed debris flow runout for the 9 January 2018 Montecito, California post‐wildfire event

KR Barnhart, RP Jones, DL George… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hazard assessment for post‐wildfire debris flows, which are common in the steep terrain of
the western United States, has focused on the susceptibility of upstream basins to generate …

Shallow landslides and vegetation at the catchment scale: A perspective

C Phillips, T Hales, H Smith, L Basher - Ecological Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Shallow, rainfall-triggered landslides are an important catchment process that affect the rate
and calibre of sediment within river networks and create a significant hazard, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Wildfires in Europe: Burned soils require attention

DCS Vieira, P Borrelli, D Jahanianfard, A Benali… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Annually, millions of hectares of land are affected by wildfires worldwide, disrupting
ecosystems functioning by affecting on-site vegetation, soil, and above-and belowground …

Hydrogeomorphic recovery and temporal changes in rainfall thresholds for debris flows following wildfire

OJ Hoch, LA McGuire, AM Youberg… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire‐induced changes to soil and vegetation promote runoff‐generated debris flows in
steep watersheds. Postfire debris flows are most commonly observed in steep watersheds …