Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Altarejos-García, L., Morales-Torres, A., & Escuder-Bueno, I. (2019). Empirical Tool for the Assessment of Annual Overtopping Probabilities of Dams. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 145(1), 04018083. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001017 This paper presents a simple tool for the assessment of maximum overtopping probabilities of dams. The tool is based on empirical relations between the overtopping probability and the basic hydrological and hydraulic characteristics of the dam-reservoir system: the unit storage capacity, , and the… Read More

Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Morales-Torres, A., Escuder-Bueno, I., & Paredes-Arquiola, J. (2019). Quantification of climate change impact on dam failure risk under hydrological scenarios : A case study from a Spanish dam. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 1‑31. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2019-141 Dam safety is increasingly subjected to the influence of climate change. Its impacts must be assessed through the integration of the various effects acting on each aspect, considering their interdependencies, rather than by a simple accumulation… Read More

Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Morales-Torres, A., Altarejos-García, L., & Escuder-Bueno, I. (2019). Incorporation of a time-dependent risk analysis approach to dam safety management. In J.-P. Tournier, T. Bennett, & J. Bibeau (Éds.), Sustainable and Safe Dams Around the World (1re éd., p. 2384–2392). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429319778-213 In this publication we address the lack of technical expertise in the geoscience community in the design and construction of photogrammetric systems for monitoring natural hazards at high spatio-temporal resolution. Accordingly, we… Read More

Foehn, A., García Hernández, J., De Cesare, G., & Fluixá-Sanmartín, J. (2018). Amélioration du calage du modèle hydrologique du bassin de la grande-eau en suisse avec des produits spatialisés de précipitation, température et couverture de neige. Presented at the conference De la prévision des crues à la gestion de crise, Avignon, 14-16 novembre 2018. La prévision hydrologique en milieu alpin continue de représenter un défi majeur malgré le développement technologique, notamment en lien avec la… Read More

Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Altarejos-García, L., Morales-Torres, A., & Escuder-Bueno, I. (2018). Review article : Climate change impacts on dam safety. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18(9), 2471‑2488. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2471-2018 Dams as well as protective dikes and levees are critical infrastructures whose associated risk must be properly managed in a continuous and updated process. Usually, dam safety management has been carried out assuming stationary climatic and non-climatic conditions. However, the projected alterations due to climate change are likely… Read More

Increasing meteorological data availability and quality implies an adaptation of the interpolation methods for data combination. In this paper, we propose a new method to efficiently combine weather radar data with data from two heated rain gauge networks of different quality. The two networks being non-collocated (no common location between the two networks), pseudo cross-variograms are used to compute the linear model of coregionalization for kriging computation. This allows considering the two… Read More

Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., Pan, D., Fischer, L., Orlowsky, B., García-Hernández, J., Jordan, F., Haemmig, C., Zhang, F., & Xu, J. (2018). Searching for the optimal drought index and timescale combination to detect drought : A case study from the lower Jinsha River basin, China. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(1), 889‑910. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-889-2018 Drought indices based on precipitation are commonly used to identify and characterize droughts. Due to the general complexity of droughts, the comparison of indexidentified events with… Read More

García Hernández, J., Foehn, A., Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., & Roquier, B. (2018, avril 23). El sistema minerve para la modelización de crecidas en el canton de valais en suiza : Análisis de la cuenca de grande-eau. XX Congreso Nacional de ingenería civil, Lima, Peru. During the last 4 decades, the basin of the Rhone River, upstream of Lake Leman in Switzerland, has suffered three major floods that have caused significant damage due to its overflow. For this reason, the development… Read More

Fluixá-Sanmartín, J., García Hernández, J., Huggel, C., Frey, H., Cochachin Rapre, A., Gonzales Alfaro, C. A., Román, L. M., & Masías Chacón, P. A. (2018). Highlights and Lessons from the Implementation of an Early Warning System for Glacier Lake Outburst Floods in Carhuaz, Peru. In S. Hostettler, S. Najih Besson, & J.-C. Bolay (Éds.), Technologies for Development (p. 187–200). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91068-0_16

Zeimetz, F., Schaefli, B., Artigue, G., García Hernández, J., & Schleiss, A. J. (2017). Relevance of the correlation between precipitation and the 0°C isothermal altitude for extreme flood estimation. Journal of Hydrology, 551, 177‑187. https://doi.org/10.1016/ Extreme floods are commonly estimated with the help of design storms and hydrological models. In this paper, we propose a new method to take into account the relationship between precipitation intensity (P) and air temperature (T) to account for potential snow… Read More