A5060592813- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Water resources management and optimization
- Climate variability and models
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Hydraulic flow and structures
- Dam Engineering and Safety
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Experimental Learning in Engineering
- Electric Power System Optimization
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Mobile Learning in Education
- Water Resources and Management
- Innovative Educational Technologies
- Computational Physics and Python Applications
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2015-2024
Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas
2007
Flooding along the river Will a warming climate affect floods? The prevailing sentiment is yes, but consistent signal in flood magnitudes has not been found. Blöschl et al. analyzed timing of floods Europe over past 50 years and found clear patterns changes that can be ascribed to effects (see Perspective by Slater Wilby). These variations include earlier spring snowmelt northeastern Europe, later winter around North Sea parts Mediterranean coast owing delayed storms, western caused soil...
Abstract. There is growing concern that flooding becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A better understanding of flood regime changes their drivers therefore needed. The paper reviews the current knowledge on European rivers has traditionally been obtained through two alternative research approaches. first approach data-based detection observed events. Current methods are reviewed together with challenges opportunities. For example, observation biases, merging different data sources...
It is generally accepted that drought one of the most costly weather-related natural hazards. In 2015, a long-lasting hit Europe, particularly affecting central and eastern Europe. some regions it was driest (North Slovakia) in others (Czech Republic Poland) second summer last 50 years (following 2003). Key questions are: (i) how extreme are these events, not only terms hydro-meteorological characteristics but also impacts? (ii) impacts managed? Droughts often viewed from climatic...
Abstract. In 2015 large parts of Europe were affected by drought. this paper, we analyze the hydrological footprint (dynamic development over space and time) drought in terms both severity (magnitude) spatial extent compare it to extreme 2003. Analyses are based on a range low flow indices derived for about 800 streamflow records across Europe, collected community effort common protocol. We footprints events with meteorological footprints, order learn from similarities differences...
Abstract. A multivariate analysis on flood variables is needed to design some hydraulic structures like dams, as the complexity of routing process in a reservoir requires representation full hydrograph. In this work, bivariate copula model was used obtain joint distribution peak and volume, order know probability occurrence given inflow However, risk dam overtopping by maximum water elevation reached during process, which depends hydrograph variables, volume spillway crest length....
Intermittent rivers are prevalent in many countries across Europe, but little is known about the temporal evolution of intermittence and its relationship with climate variability. Trend analysis annual seasonal number zero-flow days, maximum duration dry spells mean date events performed on a database 452 varying degrees between 1970 2010. The relationships flow investigated using standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) indices describing large-scale atmospheric...
Abstract. The current work addresses one of the key building blocks towards an improved understanding flood processes and associated changes in characteristics regimes Europe: development a comprehensive, extensive European database. presented results from ongoing cross-border research collaborations initiated with data collection joint interpretation mind. A detailed account state, spatial temporal coverage Flood Database, is presented. At this stage, hydrological still growing consists at...
Climate projections provided by EURO-CORDEX predict changes in annual maximum series of daily rainfall the future some areas Spain because climate change. Precipitation and temperature supplied models do not usually fit exactly statistical properties observed time control period. Bias correction methods are used to reduce such errors. This paper seeks find most adequate bias techniques for precipitation that minimizes errors between observations model simulations Errors flood quantiles...
Abstract. Hydrological frequency analyses are usually focused on flood peaks. Flood volumes and durations have not been studied as extensively, although there many practical situations, such when designing a dam, in which the full hydrograph is of interest. A may be described by multivariate function peak, volume duration. Most standard bivariate trivariate functions do produce univariate three-parameter marginal distributions, however, required to fit highly skewed data, peak series. In...
Statistical tools are crucial for a variety of hydrological applications, whether to model processes and enhance understanding knowledge or design infrastructure systems. Given the rapid evolution statistical methods need solid theoretical foundation their correct application, multidisciplinary community (STAHY-WG) aggregated under IAHS umbrella contribute this research field. Now, after more than fifteen years since its inception, paper summarizes main achievements productive collaboration...
Abstract Understanding temporal trends in low streamflows is important for water management and ecosystems. This work focuses on the occurrence rate of extreme low‐flow events (5‐ to 100‐year return periods) pooled groups stations. We use data from 1,184 minimally altered catchments Europe, North South America, Australia discern historical climate‐driven flows (1976–2015 1946–2015). The understanding complicated by different hydrological regimes cold, transitional, warm regions. a novel...
Hydrology science provides different methods to estimate infiltration: physically based, semi-empiric, and empiric models. Several researchers have compared the adequacy of these models conditions, such as soil types land uses. Most them were applied agriculture natural/forest lands. One main conclusions provided by studies is that cover most relevant factor, even more than texture. As a result, infiltration estimates in urban areas are subject significant uncertainty. Some employed...
The recent flood event in Valencia (Spain) October 2024 has revealed the need for real-time forecasts. Flood forecasts are based on meteorological that supply feasible precipitation coming hours and a hydrological model to simulate rainfall-runoff processes catchment. Distributed models require several parameters basin processes, though estimating their values accurately each cell remains challenge. Calibration compare results with observations, order identify best parameter values, usually...
Pluvial floods, intensified by short-duration and high-intensity storms, are becoming increasingly frequent severe due to climate change urbanization. SaferPlaces addresses this with a digital twin platform that integrates high-resolution geospatial data from sources such as Google Earth Engine (GEE), Open Street Map (OSM), Microsoft Planetary, Amazon, Copernicus. These datasets automatically integrated construct detailed, multi-layered urban twins, enabling real-time flood hazard risk...
Climate change and rapid expansion of urban areas are expected to increase pluvial flood hazard risk in the near future, particularly so large developed cities. Therefore, large-scale high-resolution mapping is required identify hotspots where mitigation measures may be applied reduce risk. Depressions or low points runoff volumes can stored prone flooding. The standard approach based on estimating synthetic design hyetographs assumes, a given depression, that T-year storm generates flood....