Browsing by Subject "Floods"
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2d river flood modelling using Hec-ras 5.0
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-06-20)
Bachelor thesis
Open AccessFlooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake or ocean, in which the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries. Floods also occur ... -
A machine learning-based surrogate model for the identification of risk zones due to off-stream reservoir failure
(International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2022)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyWith the modification of the Regulations of the Hydraulic Public Domain of Spain in 2008, approximately 70.000 owners of off-stream reservoirs are obligated to present a classification assessment on the potential risk due ... -
A machine learning-based surrogate model for the identification of risk zones due to off-stream reservoir failure
(2022-08)
Article
Open AccessApproximately 70,000 Spanish off-stream reservoirs, many of them irrigation ponds, need to be evaluated in terms of their potential hazard to comply with the new national Regulation of the Hydraulic Public Domain. This ... -
A review of flood impact assessment approaches for underground infrastructures in urban areas: a focus on transport systems
(2020-06)
Article
Open AccessFlooding events can produce significant disturbances in underground transport systems within urban areas and lead to economic and socioenvironmental well-known consequences, which can be worsened by variations in the ... -
Adecuación del modelo HEC-1 para el estudio del flujo en calles con régimen rápido durante inundaciones en medio urbano
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2006-03-06)
Minor thesis
Open AccessEl modelo HEC-1 no es capaz de reproducir el flujo en una red mallada de calles. La tesina actúa sobre el código fuente de HEC-1, para incorporar esta opción, aplicándola en caso de estudio. - Se informa sobre el estado ... -
Algoritmos de previsión a corto plazo en base a radar meteorológico
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008-06-27)
Minor thesis
Open AccessLas consecuencias de las inundaciones suelen ser devastadoras. Los sistemas de protección tradicionales se complementan cada vez más con sistemas de prevención y alerta de inundaciones. En este sentido, el radar meteorológico ... -
Analysing precipitation distribution and intensity related to floods in the Western Mediterranean basin since 1960
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-10-29)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: MeteoCatThe coastal municipalities of the Spanish Mediterranean Basin (SMB) have experienced an increase of urbanization resulting from the socioeconomic growth of the last decades. Consequently, flood prone areas have been ... -
Analysis of the convective timescale during the major floods in the NE Iberian Peninsula since 1871
(2016)
Conference lecture
Open AccessFloods are the most severe natural hazard in the western Mediterranean basin. They cause most of the damages and most of the victims. Some of the selected floods caused more than one hundred casualties each and a large ... -
Anàlisi dels efectes sobre la inundació de la desobstrucció de ponts al riu Francolí durant la riuada del 22 d'octubre de 2019
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-10-06)
Master thesis
Open AccessUn estudi realitzat sobre la crescuda del riu Francolí el 22 d'octubre de 2019, dut a terme des de la UPC, presenta estimacions dels cabals hidràulics incongruents entre elles mateixes però també incongruents respecte els ... -
Anàlisis de la inunbabilittat de la costa catalana
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-07-03)
Master thesis
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Asentamientos informales, inundaciones y vulnerabilidad físico-espacial de la vivienda y el entorno inmediato: Caso de estudio Arroyo La Esmeralda en el Distrito de Barranquilla, Colombia
(Departament d’Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2018-06)
Conference report
Open AccessEn este artículo se presenta un enfoque metodológico para identificar variables de análisis de la vulnerabilidad, desde la dimensión físico espacial,y permitir una mejor comprensión del estado en el sector Suroccidental ... -
Assessment of flash floods taking into account climate change scenarios in the Llobregat River basin
(Copernicus Publications, 2013-12-06)
Article
Open AccessGlobal change may imply important changes in the future occurrence and intensity of extreme events. Climate scenarios characterizing these plausible changes were previously obtained for the Llobregat River basin (NE Spain). ... -
Changes in flood damage with global warming on the eastern coast of Spain
(2019-12-18)
Article
Open AccessFlooding is one of the main natural hazards in the world and causes huge economic and human impacts. Assessing the flood damage in the Mediterranean region is of great importance, especially because of its large vulnerability ... -
Channel adjustments to a succession of water pulses in gravel bed rivers
(2015-11)
Article
Open AccessGravel bed rivers commonly exhibit a coarse surface armor resulting from a complex history of interactions between flow and sediment supply. The evolution of the surface texture under single storm events or under steady ... -
Climatic and social factors behind the Spanish Mediterranean flood event chronologies from documentary sources (14th–20th centuries)
(2019-11-01)
Article
Open AccessThe Spanish Mediterranean river basin provides a good background for studying floods from documentary and bibliographical sources within the specialty of historical climatology. This study region's long history of human ... -
Combined flooding and water quality monitoring during short extreme events using Sentinel 2: the case study of Gloria storm in Ebro delta
(2022-05-17)
Article
Open AccessShort extreme events have significant impact on landscape and ecosystems in low-lying and exposed areas such as deltaic systems. In this context, this paper proposes a combined methodology for the mapping and monitoring ... -
Discriminating the occurrence of inundation in tsunami early warning with one-dimensional convolutional neural networks
(Nature Research, 2022-06)
Article
Open AccessTsunamis are natural phenomena that, although occasional, can have large impacts on coastal environments and settlements, especially in terms of loss of life. An accurate, detailed and timely assessment of the hazard is ... -
Diseño del paisaje del refugio contra inundaciones de Wanzhou
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-10-26)
Master thesis
Open AccessWanzhou is located in Chongqing. There are general floods every other or two years. The interval between super floods is getting shorter and shorter, and each super flood causes a loss of up to 10 million euros. The design ... -
Distribución de caudales en un cruce de calles con ángulos diferentes
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-11)
Minor thesis
Open AccessDurante sucesos de precipitación severos en grandes ciudades, es común que se produzcan inundaciones, de tal manera que el agua circula por las calles como si de una red de canales de tratara, causando perdidas materiales ... -
Early warning system for flood warning in campings
(Springer, 2020)
Part of book or chapter of book
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe following paper explain a new methodology for an early warning system for rain events at a campsite over the Pyrenees in Lleida in the Northeast of Spain. The typology of rainfall events is well known in this part of ...
