Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System

[EN] Flash floods represent one of the most common natural hazards in mountain catchments, and are frequent in Mediterranean environments. As a result of the widespread lack of reliable data on past events, the understanding of their spatio-temporal occurrence and their climatic triggers remains rat...

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Autores: Ballesteros-Cánovas, Juan A., Rodríguez-Morata, Clara, Rubiales, Juan M., Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl, Stoffel, Markus, Garófano-Gómez, Virginia|||0000-0001-5516-5695
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Paleohydrology
Flash flood
Tree ring
Dendrogeomorphology
Hydrometeorological triggers
Sierra de Guadarrama
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spelling Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central SystemBallesteros-Cánovas, Juan A.Rodríguez-Morata, ClaraRubiales, Juan M.Sánchez-Salguero, RaúlStoffel, MarkusGarófano-Gómez, Virginia|||0000-0001-5516-5695PaleohydrologyFlash floodTree ringDendrogeomorphologyHydrometeorological triggersSierra de Guadarrama[EN] Flash floods represent one of the most common natural hazards in mountain catchments, and are frequent in Mediterranean environments. As a result of the widespread lack of reliable data on past events, the understanding of their spatio-temporal occurrence and their climatic triggers remains rather limited. Here, we present a dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of past flash flood activity in the Arroyo de los Puentes stream (Sierra de Guadarrama, Spanish Central System). We analyze a total of 287 increment cores from 178 disturbed Scots pine trees (Pinus sylvestris L.) which yielded indications on 212 growth disturbances related to past flash flood impact. In combination with local archives, meteorological data, annual forest management records and highly-resolved terrestrial data (i.e., LiDAR data and aerial imagery), the dendrogeomorphic time series allowed dating 25 flash floods over the last three centuries, with a major event leaving an intense geomorphic footprint throughout the catchment in 1936. The analysis of meteorological records suggests that the rainfall thresholds of flash floods vary with the seasonality of events. Dated flash floods in the 20th century were primarily related with synoptic troughs owing to the arrival of air masses from north and west on the Iberian Peninsula during negative indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation. The results of this study contribute considerably to a better understanding of hazards related with hydrogeomorphic processes in central Spain in general and in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park in particular.This study has been partially funded by the projects IDEA-GesPPNN-163/2010 (OAPN - Organismo Autonomo de Parques Nacionales, Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentacion y Medio Ambiente) and CGL2010-19274 (projects MAS Dendro-Avenidas) of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The authors sincerely acknowledge Marco Borga and other anonymous reviewer. Special recognition must be given to CENEAM, Montes de Valsain, OAPN and JCyL for providing information for this study. Specifically, they want to thank Javier Dones (Director of Montes de Valsain), Ramzi Touchan and Dave Meko for their support during the study, as well as Andres Diez and Gerardo Benito and all participants of the Tree-ring summer school carried out in 2012 in Valsain (Touchan et al., 2013). R. Sanchez-Salguero thanks the financial support from University of Cordoba-Campus de Excelencia Internacional-ceiA3.ElsevierDepartamento de Economía y Ciencias SocialesEscuela Politécnica Superior de GandiaInstituto de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada de Zonas CosterasMinisterio de Ciencia e InnovaciónOrganismo Autónomo de Parques NacionalesRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20152015-10-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/187397reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)InglésengMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 CGL2010-19274 METODOLOGIAS AVANZADAS PARA EL ESTUDIO DENDROGEOMORFOLOGICO DE AVENIDAS TORRENCIALES Y SUS RIESGOS ASOCIADOSOrganismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales OAPN IDEA-GesPPNN-163%2F2010open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada (by-nc-nd) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/1873972026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System
title Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System
spellingShingle Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System
Ballesteros-Cánovas, Juan A.
Paleohydrology
Flash flood
Tree ring
Dendrogeomorphology
Hydrometeorological triggers
Sierra de Guadarrama
title_short Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System
title_full Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System
title_fullStr Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System
title_full_unstemmed Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System
title_sort Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ballesteros-Cánovas, Juan A.
Rodríguez-Morata, Clara
Rubiales, Juan M.
Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl
Stoffel, Markus
Garófano-Gómez, Virginia|||0000-0001-5516-5695
author Ballesteros-Cánovas, Juan A.
author_facet Ballesteros-Cánovas, Juan A.
Rodríguez-Morata, Clara
Rubiales, Juan M.
Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl
Stoffel, Markus
Garófano-Gómez, Virginia|||0000-0001-5516-5695
author_role author
author2 Rodríguez-Morata, Clara
Rubiales, Juan M.
Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl
Stoffel, Markus
Garófano-Gómez, Virginia|||0000-0001-5516-5695
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Economía y Ciencias Sociales
Escuela Politécnica Superior de Gandia
Instituto de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada de Zonas Costeras
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Paleohydrology
Flash flood
Tree ring
Dendrogeomorphology
Hydrometeorological triggers
Sierra de Guadarrama
topic Paleohydrology
Flash flood
Tree ring
Dendrogeomorphology
Hydrometeorological triggers
Sierra de Guadarrama
description [EN] Flash floods represent one of the most common natural hazards in mountain catchments, and are frequent in Mediterranean environments. As a result of the widespread lack of reliable data on past events, the understanding of their spatio-temporal occurrence and their climatic triggers remains rather limited. Here, we present a dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of past flash flood activity in the Arroyo de los Puentes stream (Sierra de Guadarrama, Spanish Central System). We analyze a total of 287 increment cores from 178 disturbed Scots pine trees (Pinus sylvestris L.) which yielded indications on 212 growth disturbances related to past flash flood impact. In combination with local archives, meteorological data, annual forest management records and highly-resolved terrestrial data (i.e., LiDAR data and aerial imagery), the dendrogeomorphic time series allowed dating 25 flash floods over the last three centuries, with a major event leaving an intense geomorphic footprint throughout the catchment in 1936. The analysis of meteorological records suggests that the rainfall thresholds of flash floods vary with the seasonality of events. Dated flash floods in the 20th century were primarily related with synoptic troughs owing to the arrival of air masses from north and west on the Iberian Peninsula during negative indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation. The results of this study contribute considerably to a better understanding of hazards related with hydrogeomorphic processes in central Spain in general and in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park in particular.
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Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales OAPN IDEA-GesPPNN-163%2F2010
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