Severe meteorological phenomena such as storms, hurricanes and cyclones have devastating impact on the population, infrastructure but also the natural environment. Apart from flooding, these events usually trigger numerous landslides along the impacted areas. Mapping and studying of these landslides are necessary steps towards understanding and mitigating these types of natural disasters. Medicanes (Mediterranean hurricanes), a concatenation of Mediterranean Sea with hurricanes, resemble tropical cyclones but present certain differences like much shorter expected lifespan. Medicane Ianos (September 2020) was the first devastating event that led to extensive destruction in Greece, including flooding, serious damages to infrastructure and numerous landslides. Storm (Medicane) Daniel, three years after Ianos, landed on Greece in September 2023. From September 4 up to September 7 2023, central Greece and especially Thessaly region, experienced severe rainfall exceeding 1000 mm at places. We focused on the landslides triggered in the western Thessaly region, in order to develop an event-based landslide inventory.
Development of a Medicane-induced landslide inventory with field and remote sensing data; 2023 Storm Daniel, central Greece
Valkaniotis S;Taftsoglou M.;Zei C.;
2025
Abstract
Severe meteorological phenomena such as storms, hurricanes and cyclones have devastating impact on the population, infrastructure but also the natural environment. Apart from flooding, these events usually trigger numerous landslides along the impacted areas. Mapping and studying of these landslides are necessary steps towards understanding and mitigating these types of natural disasters. Medicanes (Mediterranean hurricanes), a concatenation of Mediterranean Sea with hurricanes, resemble tropical cyclones but present certain differences like much shorter expected lifespan. Medicane Ianos (September 2020) was the first devastating event that led to extensive destruction in Greece, including flooding, serious damages to infrastructure and numerous landslides. Storm (Medicane) Daniel, three years after Ianos, landed on Greece in September 2023. From September 4 up to September 7 2023, central Greece and especially Thessaly region, experienced severe rainfall exceeding 1000 mm at places. We focused on the landslides triggered in the western Thessaly region, in order to develop an event-based landslide inventory.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
