Flood and landslide warning based on rainfall thresholds and soil moisture indexes: the HEWS (Hydrohazards Early Warning System) for Sicily
Giuseppina Brigandì
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Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy
Giuseppe Tito Aronica
Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy
Brunella Bonaccorso
Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy
Roberto Gueli
Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98168 Messina, Italy
Giuseppe Basile
Regional Civil Protection Department of Sicily, 90141 Palermo, Italy
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The paper presents the flood and landslide early warning system HEWS developed by the University of Messina for the
Integrated Multi-Risk Decentralised Functional Centreof Sicily (Italy). HEWS implements a methodology based on the combined use of rainfall thresholds, soil moisture modelling and quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) to issue alert bulletins both for floods and landslide. The software Delft-FEWS has been adopted as operation platform to support the implementation of HEWS.
The paper presents the flood and landslide early warning system HEWS developed by the University...