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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-4588</article-id>
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<article-title>ALERT: A Scalable Cloud-Native Framework for Satellite Rainfall-Driven Landslide Early Warning in Data-Scarce Regions</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yunus</surname>
<given-names>Ali P.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9545-0714</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Faizah</surname>
<given-names>Erakkath</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mukundan</surname>
<given-names>Saju</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2114-1577</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sajinkumar</surname>
<given-names>Kochappi Sathyan</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Subramanian</surname>
<given-names>Srikrishnan Siva</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4004-0894</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Attada</surname>
<given-names>Raju</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6194-4561</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Achu</surname>
<given-names>Ashokan Laila</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali  140306, India</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geology, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram 695581, India</addr-line>
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<addr-line>Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667, India</addr-line>
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<day>21</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>38</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Ali P. Yunus et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Rainfall-triggered landslides cause thousands of fatalities each year, yet effective early warning remains challenging across many mountainous regions because of sparse rainfall observations and limited forecasting infrastructure. Here we present ALERT (Automated Landslide Early Risk Tracker), a scalable, cloud-native framework that integrates NASA IMERG satellite precipitation, ECMWF operational forecasts, terrain susceptibility, rainfall intensity&amp;ndash;duration thresholds, debris-flow runout modelling, and building exposure to deliver near-real-time, impact-based landslide warnings. ALERT incorporates a globally transferable catalogue of 24 rainfall thresholds while allowing user-defined thresholds and susceptibility layers, enabling deployment across diverse climatic and geomorphological settings. Event-based validation achieved a sensitivity of 0.80 and an overall accuracy exceeding 0.70, demonstrating effective detection of hazardous rainfall conditions for landslide initiation. By reducing dependence on dense ground-based rain-gauge networks, ALERT provides a computationally efficient and scalable pathway towards regional scale landslide early warning and climate-resilient disaster risk reduction, particularly in data-scarce regions.</p>
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<funding-source>Ministry of Education</funding-source>
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