The 2-3 November 2015 flood of the Sió River (NE Iberian Peninsula): a flash flood that turns into a mudflow downstream / J. Balasch, J. Ruiz, R. Rodríguez, J. Tuset, X. Castelltort, M. Barriendos, D. Pino, J. Mazon



En: European Geosciences Union General Assembly. "Geophysical Research Abstracts". Viena : [s.n.], 2016, p. 1


Historical and recent evidence shows that many floods in the interior of Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) usually have such a great sediment load that can even alter the hydraulic behaviour of the flow. This is especially true in catchments with a great proportion of agricultural soils, which are the main source of sediment. The night of 2-3 November 2015 torrential rains fell on the headwaters of the Sió River catchment (508 km2); the subsequent flood caused four deaths and many damages along the stream. The hydrological, hydraulic and sedimentary characteristics of this recent flood have been analysed in order to gain a better insight on the characteristics of the major historical floods in the same catchment. The rainfall height on the headwaters was between 139 and 146 mm in ten hours, with a maximum intensity of about 50 mm h-1. In the rest of the catchment it rained much less (22-71 mm). The agricultural soils in the headwaters show evidence of intense erosion by laminar and concentrated Hortonian overland flow in their superficial layer (Ap1; 10 cm), which uncovered the more compact underlying layer (Ap2). The peak flow in the headwaters (Oluges) was 90 m3 s-1 (that is, a specific peak flow near 1 m3 s-1 km-2) and it diminished downstream: 40 m3 s-1 in the centre of the catchment (Oluges + 27 km) and 15 m3 s-1 in the outlet (Oluges + 54 km). The suspended sediment load was 10-15.

Runoff variability of an extreme flash flood event on the Catalan coastal system-Ebro basin water divide (NE Iberian Peninsula) / Balasch Solanes, Josep Carles, [et al.]



En: European Geosciences Union General Assembly. "European Geoscience Union (EGU 2020). Vienna, Austria : [s.n.], 2020


On the 22nd and 23rd of October 2019 a severe rainfall produced floods in the basins of the Catalan Coastal Range-Ebro Depression border (Francolí, Set, Femosa rivers) that affected various towns such as L'Espluga de Francolí, Montblanc, l'Albi, Vinaixa, among others, causing 6 deaths and material damages that exceeded 100 million euros.

Erosió, transport i sedimentació fluvial com a integració dels processos geomorfològics d'una conca: Conca de Cal Rodó, Alt Llobregat [Microforma] / F. Xavier Castelltort Aiguabella
Castelltort Aiguabella, F. Xavier


Barcelona : Publicacions Universitat de Barcelona, 1996
Dirigida per: Marzo Carpio, Mariano; Clotet i Perarnau, Núria. Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Geologia Dinàmica, Geofísica i Paleontologia, 1995
1 microfitxa 239 fotog., 48x : il., map., gràf., taules + 1 fullet (10 p. ; 16 cm) (Tesis doctorals microfitxades, 2873. Universitat de Barcelona : 1996) 
Bibliografia. Inclou apèndix.
ISBN 84-475-1379-3

Erosió, transport i sedimentació fluvial com a integració dels processos geomorfològics d'una conca: Conca de Cal Rodó, Alt Llobregat / F. Xavier Castelltort Aiguabellla; dirigida per Mariano Marzo Carpio i Núria Clotet Perarnau
Castelltort Aiguabella, F. Xavier


Dirigida per: Marzo Carpio, Mariano; Clotet i Perarnau, Núria. Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Geologia Dinàmica, Geofísica i Paleontologia, 1995
234 p. : gràf.
Exemplar mecanografiat (fotocòpia). Bibliografia. Inclou apèndix.