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Title: Improving flood maps in ungauged fluvial basins with dendrogeomorphological data. An example from the Caldera de Taburiente National Park (Canary Islands, Spain)
Authors: Garrote, Julio
Diez-Herrero, Andrés
Génova, Mar
Bodoque, José M.
Perucha, Maria A.
Mayer, Pablo L. 
UNESCO Clasification: 2505 Geografía
Keywords: Flood hazard
Ungauged basin
Dendro-geomorphological data
2D hydraulic model
Canary Islands
Issue Date: 2018
Journal: Geosciences (Switzerland) 
Abstract: Flash floods represent one of the more usual natural hazards in mountain basins, and, combined with the lack of reliable flow data and the recreational use of the drainage basin by tourists and hikers, there is a significant risk of catastrophe. Here, we present a dendro-geomorphological reconstruction of a past flash flood event in the Caldera de Taburiente N.P. (Canary Islands, Spain), an ungauged drainage basin in the SW side of the volcanic island of La Palma. We couple two-dimensional hydraulic modelling in a highly-resolved topographic environment (LiDAR data) with (1) peak flow data for various T-year return periods from an uncalibrated hydrological model and (2) a data set of scars on trees, to investigate the magnitude of a 1997 dated flash-flood. From the results, flood hazards and associated risks would be clearly underestimated by using only the unique available hydrological data (a rainfall gauge station downstream of the study area). Hydraulic models using scars data show a higher flood hazard scenario, improving the flood hazard map by using all available flood evidence. Moreover, all this will allow for better implementation of appropriate adaptation policies by National Park managers, and therefore the mitigation of future disasters.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/42257
ISSN: 2076-3263
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences8080300
Source: Geosciences [ISSN 2076-3263], v. 8 (8), 300, (Agosto 2018)
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