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Josep Carles Balasch
Researcher at University of Lleida
Publications - 15
Citations - 223
Josep Carles Balasch is an academic researcher from University of Lleida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Flash flood & Flood myth. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 12 publications receiving 164 citations.
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Climatic and social factors behind the Spanish Mediterranean flood event chronologies from documentary sources (14th–20th centuries)
Mariano Barriendos,Salvador Gil-Guirado,David Pino,Jordi Tuset,Alfredo Pérez-Morales,Armando Alberola,Joan Costa,Josep Carles Balasch,Xavier Castelltort,Jordi Mazon,Josep Lluís Ruiz-Bellet +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, a methodology for reconstructing historical floods based on cross-referencing documentary sources is proposed, together with additional archival work, which has allowed to increase the number of flood series for the Spanish Mediterranean coast by 17% and has generated a surprising increase of 233% in the count of flood cases detected.
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The "Prediflood" database of historical floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) AD 1035–2013, and its potential applications in flood analysis
Mariano Barriendos,Josep Lluís Ruiz-Bellet,Jordi Tuset,Jordi Mazon,Josep Carles Balasch,David Pino,J. L. Ayala +6 more
TL;DR: The Prediflood database as discussed by the authors is a database of historical floods that occurred in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), between the 11th century and the 21st century.
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The extreme floods in the Ebro River basin since 1600 CE
Josep Carles Balasch,David Pino,Josep Lluís Ruiz-Bellet,Jordi Tuset,Mariano Barriendos,Xavier Castelltort,Juan Carlos Peña +6 more
TL;DR: This work reconstructs the most important floods of the Ebro basin during the last 400 years in different areas of the basin by using hydraulic models and to calculate the subbasins contributions.
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Meteorological and hydrological analysis of major floods in NE Iberian Peninsula
David Pino,Josep Lluís Ruiz-Bellet,Josep Carles Balasch,Laura Romero-León,Jordi Tuset,Mariano Barriendos,Jordi Mazon,Xavier Castelltort +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, meteorological conditions and specific peak flows of 24 catastrophic floods that affected NE Iberian Peninsula in the period 1842-2000 were analyzed and a good correlation between stability indices and the season when the flood occurred was found.
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Historical, hydraulic, hydrological and meteorological reconstruction of 1874 Santa Tecla flash floods in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)
Josep Lluís Ruiz-Bellet,Josep Carles Balasch,Jordi Tuset,Mariano Barriendos,Jordi Mazon,David Pino +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a multidisciplinary methodology for historical floods reconstruction was applied to 1874 Santa Tecla floods occurred in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), using both historical information and meteorological data from 20th Century Reanalysis.