2020
DOI: 10.3390/w12020368
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Flood Consequences of Land-Use Changes at a Ski Resort: Overcoming a Geomorphological Threshold (Portainé, Eastern Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula)

Abstract: The sensitive mountain catchment of Portainé (Eastern Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula) has recently experienced a significant change in its torrential dynamics due to human disturbances. The emplacement of a ski resort at the headwaters led to the surpassing of a geomorphological threshold, with important consequences during flood events. Consequently, since 2008, channel dynamics have turned into sediment-laden, highly destructive torrential flows. In order to assess this phenomenon and o acquire a holistic under… Show more

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“…Estas técnicas resultan un complemento a los métodos clásicos (hidrológico-hidráulicos e históricodocumentales) y paleohidrológicos novedosos (geológico-geomorfológicos) en sistemas fluviales con información diversa, donde la integración de diferentes fuentes de datos resulta fundamental para entender los cambios ambientales (Schulte et al, 2019;Furdada et al, 2020).…”
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“…Estas técnicas resultan un complemento a los métodos clásicos (hidrológico-hidráulicos e históricodocumentales) y paleohidrológicos novedosos (geológico-geomorfológicos) en sistemas fluviales con información diversa, donde la integración de diferentes fuentes de datos resulta fundamental para entender los cambios ambientales (Schulte et al, 2019;Furdada et al, 2020).…”
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“…i. Distribución de especies y edades: los procesos de sucesión vegetal en el fondo del valle y sobre los depósitos de inundaciones permiten que se pueda usar la edad/especie como proxy para delimitar la extensión de eventos pasados y asignar una edad mínima de los depósitos (Génova et al, 2015;Furdada et al, 2020;Fontana et al, 2021). Esta información puede emplearse para mejorar los mapas de peligrosidad de inundación y calibrar la extensión de las zonas afectadas derivada de los modelos hidráulicos.…”
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“…The rainfall events of high intensity in the Romadriu subcatchment occur in spring and summer, mainly as convective storms (https://www.meteo.cat/climatologia/atles_climatic/). The orography controls the generation of convective cells in the upper part of the drainage catchments (Trapero, et al, 2013b), which increases precipitation, as at the Portainé summit, and produces very uneven precipitation intensities in weather stations close to each other (Furdada, et al, 2020). Torrential events in Portainé, therefore, are mainly related to intense and localized convective summer storms (pers.…”
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“…Thus, to extend the information about the spatial and temporal extension of floods in mountainous areas, where few or no meteorological and hydrological stations are available, this work analyzes two specific rivers in the upper catchment of the Noguera Pallaresa River (Figure 1). The area has been studied before, and information has been obtained from a tributary, the Portainé stream, which in recent decades has been affected by significant torrential flooding (Génova, et al, 2018;Victoriano, 2018;Victoriano, et al, 2018a, b;Furdada et al, 2020). We expand the existing data by studying the Romadriu subcatchment and the Ramiosa and Flamisell streams (Figure 1), which has enabled us to enlarge the spatial scale and compare the hydrologic response contrasting areas in terms of the throughout the Pyrenees from the Aran valley to the south, where the river flows to the Camarasa reservoir (pre-Pyrenees), upstream from its confluence with the Segre River.…”
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confidence: 99%