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@article{gonzalez-cao_enhancing_2025,

title = {Enhancing Flood Risk Management: A Review on Numerical Modelling of Past Flood Events},

author = {José González-Cao and Helena Barreiro-Fonta and Diego Fernández-Nóvoa and Orlando García-Feal},

url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/12/6/133},

doi = {10.3390/hydrology12060133},

issn = {2306-5338},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-06-01},

urldate = {2026-03-18},

journal = {Hydrology},

volume = {12},

number = {6},

pages = {133},

publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},

abstract = {Recent scientific literature has consistently highlighted a significant increase in both the frequency and intensity of flood events, primarily attributed to the effects of climate change. Projections suggest that this trend will likely intensify in the coming decades. In this context, enhancing our understanding of flooding dynamics becomes not only necessary but urgent. A critical component of this advancement lies in the numerical analysis of historical flood events, which provides valuable insights into flood behaviour across extended temporal and spatial scales. This approach enables two key outcomes: a significant improvement in conventional methods for estimating return periods and a reduction in the uncertainties associated with historical flood events by simulating multiple plausible scenarios to identify the most likely one. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the scientific literature focused on the numerical simulation and reconstruction of past flood events. Two main conclusions emerge from this review: First, the temporal scope of the studies is notably wide, covering events ranging from glacial periods to those occurring in the mid-20th century. Second, there exists a pronounced spatial imbalance in the geographical distribution of these studies, with certain regions significantly underrepresented. This review provides a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in flood risk assessment and hydrological modelling. By consolidating existing knowledge, it supports the development and refinement of decision-support tools aimed at improving mitigation strategies to reduce the impact of flooding on both populations and infrastructure.},

keywords = {Climate change, historical floods, numerical modelling, return period},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{juncosa_thermo-hydrochemical_2024,

title = {Thermo-hydrochemical modelling of vertical profiles of the formed Meirama Lake (NW Spain)},

author = {Ricardo Juncosa-Rivera and Jordi Delgado-Martín and José Luis Cereijo-Arango and Pablo Rodríguez-Vellando-Fernández-Carvajal},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-024-01153-9},

doi = {10.1007/s40899-024-01153-9},

issn = {2363-5045},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-09-01},

urldate = {2024-09-01},

journal = {Sustainable Water Resources Management},

volume = {10},

number = {5},

pages = {172},

abstract = {The use of modelling techniques for the study and thermohydrochemical characterisation of lakes is conditioned by the availability of data with which to validate the model created. There are not many validated numerical models that reproduce the physico-chemical behaviour of a lake. During the period March 2008–October 2019 we have been monitoring the filling and post-filling process of an old open-pit, forming the Meirama lake in NW Spain. With the data measured during these years we have had the opportunity to develop a model of the thermo-hydrochemical behaviour of the vertical profile of the lake. Thus, this article presents a vertical profile numerical model of the thermal behaviour and transport of sulfate of the lake under the current conditions of steady-state hydrodynamic operation, when the complete flooding of the mine pit was reached (May 2016–October 2019). The model developed has been a conservative diffusive transport model and a thermal conductive transport model. The developed model reproduces acceptably the vertical profiles of the analysed parameters. In these profiles, it can be seen that the chemocline originating from the filling process diffuses slowly. There are two differentiated water bodies separated by a chemocline. The model also reproduces the seasonal evolution of the temperature profile in the shallowest zone of the lake; i.e., there is a significant thermocline in the upper zone that tends to disappear during the winter season: it tends to homogenize at a temperature between 11 and 12 °C, tending to a vertical profile.},

keywords = {Chemocline, Mine lake, numerical modelling, Thermocline, Water quality},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}