Rainfall and rockfalls in the Canary Islands:  assessing a seasonal link

Melillo, Massimo; Gariano, Stefano Luigi; Peruccacci, Silvia; Sarro, Roberto; Mateos, Rosa Marìa; Brunetti, Maria Teresa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2307-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2307-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2307-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 8

Research article

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25 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 25 Aug 2020

Rainfall and rockfalls in the Canary Islands: assessing a seasonal link

Massimo Melillo, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Silvia Peruccacci, Roberto Sarro, Rosa Marìa Mateos, and Maria Teresa Brunetti

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Final revised paper (published on 25 Aug 2020)
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RC1: 'Almost everything's fine!', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 May 2020
- AC1: 'Replies to Reviewer #1', Maria Teresa Brunetti, 01 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 May 2020
- AC2: 'Replies to Reviewer #2', Maria Teresa Brunetti, 05 Jun 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (15 Jul 2020) by Thomas Glade

AR by Maria Teresa Brunetti on behalf of the Authors (15 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 Jul 2020) by Thomas Glade

AR by Maria Teresa Brunetti on behalf of the Authors (16 Jul 2020)

Short summary

In the Canary Islands, a link between rainfall and rockfall occurrence is found for most of the year, except for the warm season. Empirical rainfall thresholds for rockfalls are first proposed for Gran Canaria and Tenerife, and the dependence of the thresholds on the mean annual rainfall is discussed. The use of thresholds in early-warning systems might contribute to the mitigation of the rockfall hazard in the archipelago and reduce the associated risk.