Decadal variability of floods in the northern foreland of the Tatra Mountains

Ruíz-Villanueva, Virginia; Stoffel, Markus; Wyżga‬‬, Bartłomiej; Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W.; Czajka, Barbara; Niedźwiedź, Tadeusz

doi:10.1007/s10113-014-0694-9

Cited by 34 publications

(14 citation statements)

References 36 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Despite this possible drawback of potential noise in the records, the reliability of the reconstructed flash-flood series is very well supported by several major floods measured in the flow gauge records of the foothills (i.e., 1955, 1958, 1960, 1970, 1983, 1997, 2008Kundzewicz et al, 2014;Niedźwiedź et al, 2014;Ruiz-Villanueva et al, 2014) and/or recorded in historical archives (1866, 1893, 1902, and 1934Kotarba, 2004). Moreover, our flash flood chronology also matches with results from an existing, localized case study realized in the eastern Tatra mountains (Zielonka et al, 2008).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Spatial and temporal distribution of meteorological and flow gauge dataset on the northern slope and foothills of the Polish Tatra Mountains. Ruiz-Villanueva et al, 2014), we based our assessment on the assumption that past flash floods have been triggered by intense prolonged orographic precipitation events. Consequently, the focus of the meteorological data was on 1-, 3-, and 5-day accumulated precipitation totals (with positive temperatures in the source areas of flash floods) and for the months comprised between April and October.…”

Section: Hydrometeorological Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers

Ballesteros‐Cánovas

Czajka

Janecka

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Hydrometeorological Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers

Ballesteros‐Cánovas

Czajka

Janecka

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…More recent studies usually focused on single catchments (e.g. Banasik et al 2013;Ilnicki et al 2014;Kędra 2017;Miler 2015;Somorowska 2017) or small regions (Niedźwiedź et al 2015;Ruiz-Villanueva et al 2016;Sen and Niedzielski 2010), with one notable exception of Wrzesiński and Sobkowiak (2018) who analysed long-term changes (but not trends) in flow regime of 159 flow gauges with a good geographical coverage in Poland. Polish rivers were not included in several pan-European (Hannaford et al 2013;Stahl et al 2010) or global (Hodgkins et al 2017) studies on trend detection, perhaps due to restrictive data sharing policy .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trend detection in river flow indices in Poland

2018

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The issue of trend detection in long time series of river flow records is of vast theoretical interest and considerable practical relevance. Water management is based on the assumption of stationarity; hence, it is crucial to check whether taking this assumption is justified. The objective of this study is to analyse long-term trends in selected river flow indices in small-and medium-sized catchments with relatively unmodified flow regime (semi-natural catchments) in Poland. The examined indices describe annual and seasonal average conditions as well as annual extreme conditions-low and high flows. The special focus is on the spatial analysis of trends, carried out on a comprehensive, representative data set of flow gauges. The present paper is timely, as no spatially comprehensive studies (i.e. covering the entire Poland or its large parts) on trend detection in time series of river flow have been done in the recent 15 years or so. The results suggest that there is a strong random component in the river flow process, the changes are weak and the spatial pattern is complex. Yet, the results of trend detection in different indices of river flow in Poland show that there exists a spatial divide that seems to hold quite generally for various indices (annual, seasonal, as well as low and high flow). Decreases of river flow dominate in the northern part of the country and increases usually in the southern part. Stations in the central part show mostly 'no trend' results. However, the spatial gradient is apparent only for the data for the period 1981-2016 rather than for 1956-2016. It seems also that the magnitude of increases of river flow is generally lower than that of decreases.

show abstract

“…Temporal trends and their significance in the standard tree-ring chronology were tested with the Mann-Kendall test (Kendall and Gibbons, 1990;Mann, 1945), following the approach proposed by Hannaford et al (2013) and Ruiz-Villanueva et al (2016). The MannKendall test is widely used for the analysis of trends in climatologic and hydrologic time series mainly because it is a non-parametric test and does not require the data to be normally distributed.…”

Section: Detecting Trends In Tree Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imprisoned in the Cretan mountains: How relict Zelkova abelicea (Ulmaceae) trees cope with Mediterranean climate

Fazan

Guillet

Corona

et al. 2017

Science of The Total Environment

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

• We established the first ever centennial chronology for a broadleaved tree on Crete.• Zelkova abelicea is most sensitive to precipitation and drought in May-June.• No growth change can be related to the increase in dry conditions of the past decades.• Z. abelicea has a high capacity to withstand changing environmental conditions.We investigate the sensitivity of the relict, endemic Cretan tree species Zelkova abelicea (Lam.) Boiss. (Ulmaceae) to several climate variables (temperature, precipitation and drought). For this purpose, we establish the first centennial tree-ring chronology for the species, and the first ever tree-ring chronology for a broadleaved species on Crete. We demonstrate the strong sensitivity of Z. abelicea towards precipitation and drought in late spring to early summer and the absence of a significant response to abundant precipitation occurring during winter or early spring. Whereas the late spring sensitivity is strong and consistent through time, the species seems to be experiencing a loss of signal towards early summer conditions since the 1970s, interpreted as an earlier cessation of cambial activity due to the increase in summer drought conditions on Crete. However, despite a reduced vegetative period, no significant decrease in radial growth of Z. abelicea was observed in the tree-ring series for the last decades, thus highlighting the capacity of Z. abelicea to withstand changing environmental conditions.

show abstract

Decadal variability of floods in the northern foreland of the Tatra Mountains

Cited by 34 publications

References 36 publications

Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers

Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers

Trend detection in river flow indices in Poland

Imprisoned in the Cretan mountains: How relict Zelkova abelicea (Ulmaceae) trees cope with Mediterranean climate

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About