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Brázdil, Rudolf; Glaser, Rüdiger; Pfister, Christian; Dobrovolný, Petr; Antoine, Jean-Marc; Barriendos, Mariano; Camuffo, Dario; Deutsch, Mathias; Enzi, Silvia; Guidoboni, Emanuela; Kotyza, Oldřich; Rodrigo, F. S.

doi:10.1023/a:1005550401857

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“…Historical flood compilation followed the methodology proposed by Barriendos and Martin-Vide (1998) and Brázdil et al (1999) to obtain chronologies for interpreting low frequency flood patterns. The increase in the amount of available information allows for multi-proxy reconstructions of the meteorological and hydrological processes related to floods (Thorndycraft et al, 2006;Ruiz-Bellet et al, 2015;Pino et al, 2016;Balasch et al, 2019), and methodological improvements for indexing and classifying flood cases.…”

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Climatic and social factors behind the Spanish Mediterranean flood event chronologies from documentary sources (14th–20th centuries)

Barriendos

Gil-Guirado

Pino

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Global and Planetary Change

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The 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 occupation and climatic conditions together determine a high risk of flooding. As a result, there exists an enormous amount of documentary heritage containing flood information. However, the heterogeneity of documentary sources and different approaches to classifying floods through historical documents can generate some biases and uncertainties about the quantity and quality of the available data. For this reason, this paper proposes a methodology for reconstructing historical floods based on cross-referencing documentary sources. This approach, together with additional archival work, has allowed us to increase the number of flood series for the Spanish Mediterranean coast by 17% and has generated a surprising increase of 233% in the number of flood cases detected. The data obtained have allowed us to analyze the variability of floods and their relationship with climatic and social factors from the fourteenth century to the present. Different climatic oscillations related to the Little Ice Age are detected between the 14th and 19th centuries. Additionally, we detected a strong influence of the defense infrastructures and urban growth, which explain the recent flood trends. However, the difficulty in analyzing the influence of social factors on long-term flood behavior invites us to reflect on the need for further work for emphasizing these issues.

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Climatic and social factors behind the Spanish Mediterranean flood event chronologies from documentary sources (14th–20th centuries)

Barriendos

Gil-Guirado

Pino

et al. 2019

Global and Planetary Change

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“…5C). Growth in economic activity coincided with the beginning of the Little Ice Age, when throughout Europe a rise in the frequency of flooding (Brazdil et al 1999, Starkel 2001) and a transformation of river channel systems from meandering to braided were both observed (Szumański 1977). Mention should also be made of the lateral migration of river channels in alluvial fans in valley outlets from the Carpathians in recent centuries (Fig.…”

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Geomorphological records of human activity reflected in fluvial sediments in the Carpathians and their foreland

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2013

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Records of human activity in valleys of the Upper Vistula River catchment and the Upper Dniester River catchment in the area of the Eastern Carpathian Foreland are synchronic and date back to the Neolithic Period. They include alluvia and colluvia in small valleys, linked with local downpours, as well as changes in large valleys, where flooding is reflected in modifications to river channels and an acceleration in the deposition of overbank facies. Among these periods are phases determined climatically (5 th -7 th centuries AD) and those reflecting human activity (1 st -3 rd centuries AD), as well as phases recording the coincidence of both factors (middle Neolithic, 10 th -11 th centuries AD and the Little Ice Age). The most distinct changes leading to transformation in valley slopes and bottoms are linked with the coincidence of humid climatic phases and periods of increased human impact.

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“…Most of the precipitation occurs in the Alps. This part of the catchment area comprises only 20% of the total surface area of the basin, but contributes to about 50% of the discharge of the Rhine river (Brázdil et al, 1999). Most of the precipitation in the Alps occurs as snowfall.…”

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Hydraulic modelling approaches to decrease uncertainty in flood frequency relations

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Climatic and social factors behind the Spanish Mediterranean flood event chronologies from documentary sources (14th–20th centuries)

Climatic and social factors behind the Spanish Mediterranean flood event chronologies from documentary sources (14th–20th centuries)

Geomorphological records of human activity reflected in fluvial sediments in the Carpathians and their foreland

Hydraulic modelling approaches to decrease uncertainty in flood frequency relations

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