Browsing by Subject "Inundacions"
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A probabilistic approach for off-stream reservoir failure flood hazard assessment
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-06-12)
Article
Open AccessOff-stream reservoirs are hydraulic structures that might cause severe flood damages in case of failure or improper operation. Their safety regulations usually require hydraulic studies for flood hazard and inundation zone ... -
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 ... -
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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Así influimos los humanos en las inundacions de la cuenca mediterránea
(2019-11-20)
Article
Open AccessLas inundaciones son un fenómeno recurrente en la vertiente mediterránea española que, tanto históricamente como en la actualidad, causan importantes pérdidas humanas y materiales. Según la base de datos de emergencias ... -
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). ... -
Avenidas y presas. tendencias actuales
(1990)
Conference report
Open AccessLos datos estadísticos mundiales muestran que el vertido sobre coronación es la causa más importante de la rotura de presas, ya sea debido a la insuficiencia de los órganos de desaglie o a problemas de operación durante ... -
Chronic flooding events due to sea-level rise in French Guiana
(Springer Nature, 2023-12-07)
Article
Open AccessAs sea levels are rising, the number of chronic flooding events at high tide is increasing across the world coastlines. Yet, many events reported so far either lack observational evidence of flooding, or relate to coastal ... -
Climate services focused on water: quantity and quality
(Publicaciones de la Asociación Española de Climatologia (AEC), 2022)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyLas sinergias entre investigaciones facilitan que los tomadores de decisiones reduzcan los impactos del cambio climático en el ciclo hidrológico gracias a servicios climáticos implementados en nuestra región. Por ejemplo, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Efectos del cambio climático en la ocurrencia de inundaciones compuestas en el litoral catalán
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-18)
Master thesis
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Estudi d'inundabilitat del marge esquerra del Llobregat en el tram comprès entre els municipis de Sant Joan Despí I Barcelona
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-10)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open AccessL’estudi d’inundabilitat de la Planificació d’ Espais Fluvials del Baix Llobregat i Anoia realitzat durant el 2005 per l’Agència Catalana de l’Aigua (d’ara en endavant ACA) en el tram final del riu Llobregat presenta uns ... -
Finalist: Public space design for flooring: facing the challenges presented by climate change
(Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2019)
Article
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Historical flood data series of Eastern Spanish Coast (14th-20th centuries). Improving identification of climatic patterns and human factors of flood events from primary documentary sources
(2016)
Conference lecture
Open AccessHistorical flood events in eastern spanish coast have been studied by different research groups and projects. Complexity of flood processes, involving atmospheric, surface and human factors, is not easily ... -
Improving flood estimation in ungauged catchments
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-05-28)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: University of BristolFor the ungauged sites, in order to link the index flood to catchment descriptors, statistical models such as multiple regression are most widely used. In this paper, the Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) statistical ... -
Increased pavement deterioration induced by flooding: A case study of 2013 Colorado floods using stochastic Monte Carlo simulations in discrete-time Markov chains (DTMC)
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-06)
Master thesis
Open AccessEls gestors de xarxes viàries pateixen dificultats a l'hora de pronosticar l'impacte de les inundacions en el deteriorament de paviments i, per tant, les operacions de manteniment, assignació pressupostària o estratègies ... -
Influència de l'algoritme de mullat-assecat en la propagació d'una inundació sobre terreny inicialment sec
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-06-15)
Master thesis
Open AccessExisteix una creixent preocupació per determinar el risc que pot comportar una inundació. Al mateix temps, també és un tema de primer ordre la necessitat de millorar la gestió de l’aigua. Aquests dos fenòmens tenen en comú ... -
Level forecasting in the Ebro River during flood episodes using adaptive predictive expert models
(Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 2009)
Conference report
Open AccessIn order to minimize the catastrophic effects of floods, it is essential to have good forecasts of the flood dynamics. To carry out these forecasts, commercial computing tools use hydraulic models based on the Saint-Venant ...
