• A novel expert opinion-based approach to compute estimations of flood damage to property in dense urban environments. Barcelona case study 

      Martínez Gomariz, Eduardo; Forero Ortiz, Edwar Andres; Russo, Beniamino; Locatelli, Luca; Guerrero Hidalga, María; Yubero, Daniel; Castan, Salvador (Elsevier, 2021-07)
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      A certain acceptable level of risk in a major drainage system must be established since urban areas cannot be made entirely free from pluvial flooding. Among the diversity of flood risks in urban areas, direct damage to ...
    • Development of machine learning models for short-term water level forecasting 

      Onay, Buse (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-09-06)
      Projecte Final de Màster Oficial
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      The impact of precise river flood forecasting and warnings in preventing potential victims along with promoting awareness and easing evacuation is realized in the reduction of flood damage and avoidance of loss of life. ...
    • Floods and consequential life cycle assessment: integrating flood damage into the environmental assessment of stormwater Best Management Practices 

      Petit Boix, Anna; Sevigné-Itoiz, Eva; Rojas Gutierrez, Lorena Avelina; Paceli Barbassa, Ademir; Josa Garcia-Tornel, Alejandro; Rieradevall Pons, Joan; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier (2017-09)
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      Stormwater management is essential to reducing the occurrence of flooding events in urban areas and to adapting to climate change. The construction of stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) entails a series of life ...
    • Large wood debris that clogged bridges followed by a sudden release: the 2019 flash flood in Catalonia 

      Martín Vide, Juan Pedro; Bateman Pinzón, Allen; Berenguer Ferrer, Marc; Ferrer Boix, Carles; Amengual Pou, Arnau; Campillo Betbese, Manel; Corral Alexandri, Carles; Llasat Botija, Maria Carmen; Llasat Botija, Montserrat; Gómez Dueñas, Santiago; Marin-Esteve, Blanca; Núñez González, Francisco; Prats Puntí, Arnau; Ruiz Carulla, Roger; Sosa Pérez, Raul (Elsevier, 2023-06)
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      The aim is the reconstruction of the October 2019 flash flood, that was documented through extensive field work: rainfall (300 mm in just a few hours), flood marks, times of flood passage and witnesses' snapshots and ...
    • Large wood in rivers and its Influence on flood hazard 

      Ruiz-Villanueva, Virginia.; Díez-Herrero, A.; Bodoque, Jose María; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest (2014)
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      In terms of flood hazard, the presence of large wood (logs, trees, branches and roots) in rivers may aggravate the consequences of flood events. This material may affect infrastructures such as bridges, weirs, etc., ...
    • Large wood transport-related flood risks analysis of Lourdes city using iber-wood model 

      Quiniou, Margaux; Piton, Guillaume; Ruiz-Villanueva, Virginia; Perrin, Cédric; Savatier, Jérémy; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest (Springer, 2022)
      Capítol de llibre
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      Large wood (LW) accumulations can cause several damages, especially if the recruited wood is transported during floods down to urban areas, like Lourdes (France). One of the most serious problems concerning bridges and ...
    • Monitoring and modelling instream wood in rivers 

      Ruiz-Villanueva, Virginia; Bürkli, Livia; Galatioto, Nicolo; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Gamberini, C.; Bertoldi, W.; Stoffel, M. (2019-01)
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      During the past three years the WoodFlow project (2015-2019), funded by the Federal Office for the Environment) aimed to develop the knowledge and methods to analyse instream large wood dynamics and to mitigate potential ...
    • Two-dimensional numerical modeling of large wood transport in bended channels considering secondary current effects 

      Innocenti, Lorenzo; Bladé i Castellet, Ernest; Sanz Ramos, Marcos; Ruiz-Villanueva, Virginia; Solari, Luca; Aberle, Jochen (2023-12)
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      The modeling of large wood (LW) transport in rivers has received increasing interest from researchers in the last decade due to the widely recognized role of LW concerning flooding risk. For this purpose, few 2D depth-averaged ...