Publications by authors named "Matjaz Mikos"
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- Blue and Green Infrastructures (BGIs) are natural systems that help manage rainwater to prevent floods and droughts.
- Researchers created a model to understand how these systems work together in cities, using different methods to simulate how water moves and is stored.
- Testing this model on a university campus in Belgium, they found that using a mix of BGIs, like green roofs and rainwater tanks, can greatly reduce water runoff and help keep water available during dry times.
Soil erosion can present a major threat to agriculture due to loss of soil, nutrients, and organic carbon. Therefore, soil erosion modelling is one of the steps used to plan suitable soil protection measures and detect erosion hotspots. A bibliometric analysis of this topic can reveal research patterns and soil erosion modelling characteristics that can help identify steps needed to enhance the research conducted in this field.
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- The study reviewed soil erosion prediction models from peer-reviewed literature published between 1994 and 2017, aiming to identify key processes, application regions, and gaps in research.
- A collaborative effort involving 67 soil-erosion scientists led to the creation of the 'Global Applications of Soil Erosion Modelling Tracker (GASEMT)', which compiled 3030 modeling records from 126 countries, covering all continents except Antarctica.
- The GASEMT database is open-source, designed to support future soil erosion research and the United Nations' global soil erosion assessment, allowing for community contributions and enhancements.
Rainfall erosivity in Slovenia: Sensitivity estimation and trend detection.
Environ Res
November 2018
Slovenia is one of the EU countries with the largest values and largest amounts of variability in rainfall erosivity, with maximum annual values exceeding 10,000 MJ mm ha h yr. Five-minute rainfall data was analysed from 10 Slovenian rainfall stations with data-length availability longer than 25 years with a maximum data length of 69 years and a total data-station length equal to 443 years. Trends in the rainfall erosivity R-factor were detected for four different sub-samples using monthly, half-year, and annual rainfall erosivity values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSediments can pose a threat to humans not only when these deposits are polluted but also due to their large quantities. This physical aspect of sediments as a risk will be shown on a case study of a sediment-related disaster that occurred in the mountainous part of Slovenia, Central Europe in 2000. In November 2000, after a long wet period a large debris landslide had been triggered on the Stože slope and stopped in the channel of the Mangart creek.
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