Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 11
Articles | Volume 18, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-3037-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-3037-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 11
Brief communication
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19 Nov 2018
Brief communication |  | 19 Nov 2018

Brief communication: Meteorological and climatological conditions associated with the 9 January 2018 post-fire debris flows in Montecito and Carpinteria, California, USA

Nina S. Oakley, Forest Cannon, Robert Munroe, Jeremy T. Lancaster, David Gomberg, and F. Martin Ralph

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The 9 January 2018 post-fire debris flows in Montecito and Carpinteria, California, killed 23 people and destroyed over 100 homes. We examine the meteorological conditions of the event and find that a narrow band of high-intensity rainfall along a cold front triggered the debris flow. Observed rainfall rates were extreme, but not unprecedented for the region. This work increases awareness of these rainbands as a post-fire hazard in California and other midlatitude regions impacted by wildfire.
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