Browsing by Author "Tuset Mestre, Jordi"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Climatic characteristics of floods from the PREDIFLOOD Project Database, Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), AD1033-2013
(2014)
Conference lecture
Open AccessStudy of flood events in long historical chronologies is common in different European basins. The main objective of these kind of studies is to describe climatic variability related to hydrometeorological events, but also ... -
Climatic context and meteorological anomalies during 1783 in Eastern Iberian Peninsula. Atmospheric processes and impacts of a singular "Bad Year"
(2018)
Conference report
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Gravel deposit produced by a flash paleoflood in a succession of Quaternary terraces in the Plain of Vic (NE Iberian Peninsula)
(2016)
Conference lecture
Open AccessIn contrast with the abundance of studies of fluvial terraces, caused by river dynamics, there are very few descriptions of alluvial deposits produced by flash floods and mass movements. This ... -
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 ... -
Historical, hydraulic, hydrological and meteorological reconstruction of 1874 Santa Tecla flash floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)
(Elsevier, 2015-03-12)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyA multidisciplinary methodology for historical floods reconstruction was applied to 1874 Santa Tecla floods occurred in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), using both historical information and meteorological data from ... -
Hydrological and sedimentary analysis of two recent flash floods in a Mediterranean basin with major changes in land uses and channel shape (Sió River, NE Iberian Peninsula)
(2017)
Conference lecture
Open AccessTwo important rain events occurred in November 2015 and November 2016 in the Sió River basin (150 km2), a small tributary of the Segre River, within the Ebro River basin (NE Iberian Peninsula), caused two considerable flash ... -
La rubinada de Santa Tecla a Tàrrega (23 de Setembre de 1874)
(2013-04-09)
Article
Open AccessA partir de la recopilación histórica de los datos documentales disponibles y aplicando una metodología multidisci- plinar con modelos de simulación hidráulica, hidrológica y meteorológica, se han reconstruido las ... -
Low-frequency atmospheric variability patterns and synoptic types linked to large floods in the lower Ebro river basin
(2022-04-15)
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Open AccessThis study analyzes the atmospheric variability that caused the largest floods affecting the town of Tortosa, Spain, in the mouth of the Ebro River (northeast Iberian Peninsula). The Tortosa flood database and flood marks ... -
Major flood events reconstruction from a multi-proxy approach. The case study of November 1617 flood event in the Mediterranean Basins of Iberian Peninsula
(2018)
Conference report
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Meteorological and hydrological analysis of major floods in NE Iberian Peninsula
(Elsevier, 2016-09-30)
Article
Open AccessThis paper analyses the meteorological conditions and the specific peak flows of 24 catastrophic floods that affected NE Iberian Peninsula in the period 1842–2000. We classify these floods according to the affected area, ... -
Meteorological reconstruction of major floods in early instrumental period in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)
(2014)
Conference report
Open AccessFloods are among the most dangerous natural hazards in the Western Mediterranean area. Historically, these types of events have generated many affectations over several fields, such as agriculture or infrastructures, ... -
Pleistocene megaflood deposits infilling the incised valley of the Lower Ebro
(2019)
Conference lecture
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Runoff variability of an extreme flash flood event on the Catalan coastal system-Ebro basin water divide (NE Iberian Peninsula)
(2020)
Conference report
Open AccessOn the 22nd and 23rd of October 2019 a severe rainfall produced floods in the basins of the Catalan Coastal Range-Ebro Depression border (Francolí, Set, Femosa rivers) that affected various towns such as L'Espluga de ... -
The "Prediflood" database of historical floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) AD 1035–2013, and its potential applications in flood analysis
(2014-12-04)
Article
Open Access“Prediflood” is a database of historical floods that occurred in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), between the 11th century and the 21st century. More than 2700 flood cases are catalogued, and more than 1100 flood events. ... -
The 2-3 November 2015 flood of the Sió River (NE Iberian Peninsula): a flash flood that turns into a mudflow downstream
(2016)
Conference lecture
Open AccessHistorical and recent evidence shows that many floods in the interior of Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) usually have such a great sediment load that can even alter the hydraulic behaviour of the flow. This is especially ... -
The extreme floods in the Ebro River basin since 1600 CE
(Elsevier, 2018-07-28)
Article
Open AccessReliable and complete knowledge of the historical floods is necessary for understanding the extreme hydrological dynamics of the rivers, their natural variability and anthropic changes. In this work we reconstruct the most ... -
The unit peak discharge as a tool for flood magnitude comparison and analysis
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2021)
Conference report
Open AccessTo analyze the river floods dynamics, it is common to fix the observations of the flow at a characteristic checkpoint of the basin, showing its evolution over time: the hydrograph. A less common way of studying this ... -
The Upper Garonne flood series from discharge gauging data (Bossost, Vald’Aran, Spain) and reconstruction of historical floods (Saint-Béat, France)
(2019)
Conference lecture
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