Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers

Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Juan Antonio; Czajka, Barbara; Janecka, Karolina; Lempa, Michał; Kaczka, Ryszard J.; Stoffel, Markus

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“…The flow peaks are reached within a few hours, thus giving little or no advance warning to mitigate flood damage (Borga et al, 2007;Borga et al, 2008). This hydrological response leads to the occurrence of a typology of floods known as flash floods because of their rapid onset, i.e., within six hours of rainfall (Ogden et al, 2000;Delrieu et al, 2005;Marchi et al, 2010;Hapuarachchi et al, 2011;Naulin et al, 2013;Ballesteros-Canovas et al, 2015).…”

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Improvement of resilience of urban areas by integrating social perception in flash-flood risk management

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Díez‐Herrero

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Journal of Hydrology

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Please cite this article as: Bodoque, J.M., Amerigo, M., Díez-Herrero, A., García, J.A., Cortés, B., BallesterosCánovas, J.A., Olcina, J., Improvement of resilience of urban areas by integrating social perception in flash-flood risk management, Journal of Hydrology (2016), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.jhydrol.2016.02.005 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. AbstractIn urban areas prone to flash floods, characterization of social resilience is critical to guarantee the success of emergency management plans. In this study, we present the methodological approach that led to the submission and subsequent approval of the Civil Protection Plan of Navaluenga (Central Spain), in which the first phase was to analyse flood hazard by combining the Hydrological Modelling System (HEC-HMS) and the Iber 2D hydrodynamic model. We then analysed social vulnerability and designed measures to put into practice within the framework of the Civil Protection Plan. At a later phase, we assessed citizens' flash-flood risk perception and level of awareness regarding some key variables of the Civil Protection Plan. To this end, 254 adults representing roughly 12% of the population census were interviewed. Responses were analysed descriptively, comparing awareness regarding preparedness and response actions with the corresponding information 2 and behaviours previously defined in the Civil Protection Plan. In addition, we carried out a latent class cluster analysis aimed at identifying the different groups present among the interviewees. Our results showed that risk perception is low. Specifically, 60.8% of the interviewees showed low risk perception and low awareness (cluster 1);24.4% had high risk perception and low awareness (cluster 2), while the remaining 14.8% presented high long-term risk perception and high awareness (cluster 3).These findings suggest the need for integrating these key variables of social risk perception and local tailored information in emergency management plans, especially in urban areas prone to flash-floods where response times are limited.

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Improvement of resilience of urban areas by integrating social perception in flash-flood risk management

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“…However, according to Procter et al (2011), the regional assessment of past hydro-climate related processes could be of substantial help in terms of reducing lack of data and maximizing the information available in a given area. In addition, regional assessments allow for a better assessment of the complexity of the linkages between climate and flash floods at these scales (Ballesteros-Cánovas et al, 2015c;Glaser et al, 2010;Merz et al, 2014). Moreover, intracatchment geomorphic and land-use comparisons are believed to yield insights into different and often varying hydrologic response of catchments (Blöschl, 2006;Costa, 1987;Glaser et al, 2010), which will in turn be useful for large-scale flash flood hazard delineations based on morphometric indexes (Fernández and Lutz, 2010;Guzzetti and Tonelli, 2004).…”

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Regional reconstruction of flash flood history in the Guadarrama range (Central System, Spain)

Rodríguez-Morata

Ballesteros‐Cánovas

Trappmann³

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Science of The Total Environment

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• Flash floods represent a regional natural hazard in Guadarrama range.• Dendrochronology allows fill the lack of systematic data in mountain environments.• Regional studies and quality samples allow reducing the number of collected samples.• We complement existing records with 8 events covering the last~200 years.• Forest management could limit the amount of proxy evidence of flash flood events. Flash floods are a common natural hazard in Mediterranean mountain environments and responsible for serious economic and human disasters. The study of flash flood dynamics and their triggers is a key issue; however, the retrieval of historical data is often limited in mountain regions as a result of short time series and the systematic lack of historical data. In this study, we attempt to overcome data deficiency by supplementing existing records with dendrogeomorphic techniques which were employed in seven mountain streams along the northern slopes of the Guadarrama Mountain range. Here we present results derived from the tree-ring analysis of 117 samples from 63 Pinus sylvestris L. trees injured by flash floods, to complement existing flash flood records covering the last~200 years and comment on their hydro-meteorological triggers. To understand the varying number of reconstructed flash flood events in each of the catchments, we also performed a comparative analysis of geomorphic catchment characteristics, land use evolution and forest management. Furthermore, we discuss the limitations of dendrogeomorphic techniques applied in managed forests. G R A P H I C A L A B S T R A C T a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o

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“…Large suspended sediment fluxes in river catchments, which result from soil loss due to water erosion, constitute a major environmental issue (Louvat et al, 2008). Soil degradation caused by erosion, together with rapid population increase, are ranked as the most important environmental problems in the world (Stoffel and Huggel, 2012), where the erosion is a key driver of land degradation heavily affecting sustainable land management in various environments worldwide (Ballesteros-Cánovas et al, 2015;Al-Turki et al, 2015;Behzadfar et al, 2015;Stoffel et al, 2013;Khaledi Darvishan et al, 2012).…”

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Assessment of Runoff and Soil Erosion in the Radulicka Rijeka Watershed, Polimlje, Montenegro

Vujačić¹,

Spalević²

2016

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SUMMARYSoil erosion is a natural process that is causing environmental concerns such as land degradation, soil loss, water pollution and ecosystem alteration. The Erosion Potential Method (EPM) is extensively used for identifying watersheds with such problems. One of 57 studied river basins of the Polimlje Region was Radulicka Rijeka Watershed where we studied soil erosion processes using the analytical and computer-graphic method IntErO, based on the EPM method. Calculated peak discharge from the river basin was 185 m 3 s -1 for the incidence of 100 years and the net soil loss was 13157 m³ yr -1 , specific 327 m³ km -² yr -1 . The use of EPM method and the IntErO model to predict sediment yield, according to our experiences, is recommended for this Region and may also be suitable for making management decisions. At the same time, further research is needed to address model limitations regarding the further development in relation to the GIS adaptations.

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Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers

Cited by 65 publications

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Improvement of resilience of urban areas by integrating social perception in flash-flood risk management

Improvement of resilience of urban areas by integrating social perception in flash-flood risk management

Regional reconstruction of flash flood history in the Guadarrama range (Central System, Spain)

Assessment of Runoff and Soil Erosion in the Radulicka Rijeka Watershed, Polimlje, Montenegro

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