The &amp;quot;Prediflood&amp;quot; database of historical floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) AD 1035–2013, and its potential  applications in flood analysis

Barriendos, Mariano; Ruiz-Bellet, Josep Lluís; Tuset, Jordi; Bueso, Jordi Mazón; Balasch, Josep Carles; Pino, David; Ayala, Jesús

doi:10.5194/hess-18-4807-2014

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“…On the contrary, the positive correlation between population increase and increase in the number of floods shows that the increase in exposure is mainly responsible for the trends observed in the study area's floods. These results are in line with other works (Pérez-Morales et al, 2018) and are consistent with the general theory of risk, which postulates that risk is a social construction (Bates and Peacock, 1987;Tapsell et al, 2002), and therefore the occurrence of a natural risk depends on there being an exposed population susceptible to suffering an impact.…”

Section: Evolution and Trends Of Flood Casessupporting

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SMC-Flood database: a high-resolution press database on flood cases for the Spanish Mediterranean coast (1960–2015)

Gil-Guirado

Pérez-Morales

López‐Martínez

2019

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Flood databases of high spatio-temporal resolution are a necessary tool for proper spatial planning, especially in areas with high levels of exposure and danger to floods. This study presents the preliminary results of the Spanish Mediterranean Coastal Flood (SMC-Flood) database covering the municipalities in this region. This database collects information on flood cases that occurred between 1960 and 2015 by systematically consulting the digital archives of the main newspapers in the study area. The search for flood information was conducted by means of using links between municipality names and seven keywords that correspond to the most common ways of referring to a situation that is likely to describe a flood in Spain. This methodology has enabled the reconstruction of 3008 flood cases at a municipal scale with daily resolution while gathering information on the types of damage, intensity, severity and area affected. The spatio-temporal analysis of the data reveals hotspots where flood cases are especially intense and damaging when compared to highly developed areas where the frequency of flood cases is very high. This situation is especially worrying insofar as we have detected a growing trend in the frequency and area affected by flood cases. However, one positive aspect is that the intensity and severity of flood cases follows a falling trend. The main novelty lies in the fact that the high-resolution spatial analysis has made it possible to detect a clear latitudinal gradient of growing intensity and severity in a north–south direction. This pattern calls for new actions by the coastal municipal authorities of southern Spain for adaptation to a more complex flood scenario.

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Section: Evolution and Trends Of Flood Casessupporting

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“…S. Gil-Guirado et al: SMC-Flood database damage to buildings, if we consider that floods are a natural risk that affect societies (Bates and Peacock, 1987;Tapsell, et al, 2002), damage to buildings is perceived to be one of the most significant impacts on societies (Nadal et al, 2009).…”

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SMC-Flood database: a high-resolution press database on flood cases for the Spanish Mediterranean coast (1960–2015)

Gil-Guirado

Pérez-Morales

López‐Martínez

2019

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…paintings, photographs); (4) crossreference of historical and palaeoflood (geological records) information, instrumental data and graphic information. It is convenient to produce a standardised data form to be filled for each documentary flood reference (Fernandez de Villalta et al, 2001;Casas et al, 2003;Barriendos et al, 2003;Barriendos et al, 2014).…”

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Quantitative historical hydrology in Europe

Benito

Brázdil

Herget

et al. 2015

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In recent decades, the quantification of flood hydrological characteristics (peak discharge, hydrograph shape, and runoff volume) from documentary evidence has gained scientific recognition as a method to lengthen flood records of rare and extreme events. This paper describes the methodological evolution of quantitative historical hydrology under the influence of developments in hydraulics and statistics. In the 19th century, discharge calculations based on flood marks were the only source of hydrological data for engineering design, but were later left aside in favour of systematic gauge records and conventional hydrological procedures. In the last two decades, there has been growing scientific and public interest in understanding long-term patterns of rare floods, in maintaining the flood heritage and memory of extremes, and developing methods for deterministic and statistical application to different scientific and engineering problems. A compilation of 46 case studies across Europe with reconstructed discharges demonstrates that (1) in most cases present flood magnitudes are not unusual within the context of the last millennium, although recent floods may exceed past floods in some temperate European rivers (e.g. the Vltava and Po rivers); (2) the frequency of extreme floods has decreased since the 1950s, although some rivers (e.g. the Gardon and Ouse rivers) show a reactivation of rare events over the last two decades. There is a great potential for gaining understanding of individual extreme events based on a combined multiproxy approach (palaeoflood and documentary records) providing high-resolution time flood series and their environmental and climatic changes; and for developing non-systematic and non-stationary statistical models based on relations of past floods with external and internal covariates under natural low-frequency climate variability.

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“…Documentary sources are basic data sources for this time period because they record climatic anomalies and extreme events, making it possible to relate such events to climatic changes. In recent years a large number of papers on historical climatology in many areas of the globe have been published (Brázdil et al, 2005(Brázdil et al, , 2010. In ad-dition, the recovering of the early instrumental observations is a priority objective in climatic research (Brönnimann et al, 2018).…”

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“…There are many example of work on the historical climate in the Iberian Peninsula using documentary sources and early instrumental observations from Spain and Portugal (see, for instance, Bullón, 2008;Domínguez-Castro et al, 2010Alcoforado et al, 2012;Barriendos et al, 2014;Fragoso et al, 2015). The first meteorological measurements in the Iberian Peninsula were taken in Portugal between 1 November 1724 and 11 January 1725 (Domínguez-Castro et al, 2013).…”

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The climate of Granada (southern Spain) during the first third of the 18th century (1706–1730) according to documentary sources

Rodrigo

2019

Clim. Past

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The "Prediflood" database of historical floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) AD 1035–2013, and its potential applications in flood analysis

Cited by 42 publications

References 26 publications

SMC-Flood database: a high-resolution press database on flood cases for the Spanish Mediterranean coast (1960–2015)

SMC-Flood database: a high-resolution press database on flood cases for the Spanish Mediterranean coast (1960–2015)

Quantitative historical hydrology in Europe

The climate of Granada (southern Spain) during the first third of the 18th century (1706–1730) according to documentary sources

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