<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diakakis, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nikolopoulos, E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mavroulis, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vassilakis, Emm.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Korakaki, E.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The role of wildfires in inducing hydrogeomorphological disasters in the Mediterranean. A case from Greece</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EGU2018-7452</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vienna, Austria</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Although forest fires are an integral part of Mediterranean forest ecosystems, they constitute one of the most&amp;nbsp;devastating natural hazards in the region. Apart from the direct consequences, fires induce well-documented&amp;nbsp;longer term effects in the geomorphological and hydrological processes, influencing environmental factors that in&amp;nbsp;turn can affect the occurrence of other natural hazards, such as floods and mass movement phenomena.&lt;br&gt;This work focuses on the forest fire of 2007 in Peloponnese, Greece that burnt 1773 km2, causing 78 fatalities and&amp;nbsp;very significant damages in property and infrastructure and went down as the largest fire in the country’s record.&amp;nbsp;It examines the occurrence of flood and mass movement phenomena, before and after this mega-fire and studies&amp;nbsp;different influencing factors to investigate the degree to which the 2007 fire and/or other parameters have affected&amp;nbsp;their frequency.&lt;br&gt;Observational evidence based on several data sources collected during the period 1989-2016 show that the 2007&amp;nbsp;fire has contributed to an increase of average flood and mass movement events frequency by approximately 3.3&amp;nbsp;and 5.6 times respectively.&lt;br&gt;Fire affected areas record a substantial increase in the occurrence of both phenomena, presenting a noticeably stronger increase compared to neighbouring areas that have not been affected. Examination of the monthly&amp;nbsp;occurrence of events showed an increase even in months of the year were rainfall intensity presented decreasing&amp;nbsp;trends.&lt;br&gt;Although no major land use changes has been identified and chlorophyll is shown to recover 2 years after the&amp;nbsp;fire incident, differences on the type of vegetation as tall forest has been substituted with lower vegetation are&amp;nbsp;considered significant drivers for the observed changes in hydrogeomorphic response of the fire affected basins.&lt;br&gt;The findings of this work are strong indications that future climatic change, with more frequent and severe&amp;nbsp;droughts and storms will be a disastrous combination for the Mediterranean region.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>