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Título: | Impact of land use changes on flash flood prediction using a sub-daily SWAT model in five Mediterranean ungauged watersheds (SE Spain) |
Fecha de publicación: | 20-mar-2019 |
Editorial: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Science of The Total Environment, 657, 2019 |
ISSN: | 0048-9697 1879-1026 |
Materias relacionadas: | CDU::9 - Geografía e historia |
Palabras clave: | Land use changes Urban development Flash floods SWAT Sub-daily simulation Mediterranean ravine basins |
Resumen: | Flash floods cause severe natural disasters over the world generating property and infrastructures damages, poverty and loss of human life, among others. Mediterranean coastal watersheds are specially sensible to flash floods effects due to their typical drainage basin features (steep slopes, short concentration times, complex orography, etc.) and the high rainfall intensity typical of convective systems. In the present study, the temporal evolution of the hydrological answer in five Mediterranean (SE Spain) ravine basins with sizes from 10.2 km2 to 200.9 km2 were analysed. A sub-daily SWAT model was used at watershed scale to capture the complex hydrological dynamics. Five land use scenarios corresponding to no-urbanization (baseline), 1990, 2000, 2006 and 2012 were evaluated using GIS-based tools. Additionally, statistical significant differences among the studied scenarios were checked employing the Kruskal-Wallis and post-hoc tests based on Mann-Whitney test with BH correction. Our results show that flash flood risks have increased in the studied catchments due to changes in land uses, particularly affected by a large urban growth. Observed changes in soil uses have been important since the sixties of the last century, because of a high demographic and touristic pressure and specially the urban area has enhanced considerably during the last 22 years. Currently, some of these catchments present around 70% of their surface occupied by urban land uses with high population density producing curve number surpasses 85 and 90 levels. The hydrological response of the studied basins changed to higher flow rate peaks and shorter concentration times. Some discharges increased significantly from the baseline land use scenario (≈50 m3/s, 190 m3/s, 380 m3/s) to the most urbanised scenario (≈235 m3/s, 385 m3/s, 940 m3/s), respectively. These findings provide to urban planning policy makers very useful information in the face of flash flood effects, which have cost even human lifes in the studied ravine basins during last years. |
Autor/es principal/es: | Jódar Abellán, Antonio Valdes Abellán, Javier Pla, Concepción Gomariz Castillo, Francisco |
Facultad/Departamentos/Servicios: | Facultades, Departamentos, Servicios y Escuelas::Departamentos de la UMU::Geografía |
Versión del editor: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971834871X |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10201/137706 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.034 |
Tipo de documento: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Número páginas / Extensión: | 46 |
Derechos: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
Descripción: | ©2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Science of The Total Environment,. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.034 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Artículos: Geografía |
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