Floods in mountain environments: A synthesis

M Stoffel, B Wyżga, RA Marston - Geomorphology, 2016 - Elsevier
Floods are a crucial agent of geomorphic change in the channels and valley floors of
mountains watercourses. At the same time, they can be highly damaging to property …

Challenges in paleoflood hydrology applied to risk analysis in mountainous watersheds–A review

JM Bodoque, A Díez-Herrero, MA Eguibar, G Benito… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
In many regions of the world flood events in mountain basins are one of the greatest risks to
the local population, due to the pressure placed on land use by social and economic …

[HTML][HTML] First insight into the macroplastic storage in a mountain river: The role of in-river vegetation cover, wood jams and channel morphology

M Liro, P Mikuś, B Wyżga - Science of the Total environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Macroplastic storage in mountain rivers remains unexplored and it is unknown how river
morphology and different surface types of river areas modulate this process. Therefore, we …

[HTML][HTML] Model-based assessment of flood generation mechanisms over Poland: The roles of precipitation, snowmelt, and soil moisture excess

N Venegas-Cordero, C Cherrat, ZW Kundzewicz… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrometeorological variability, such as changes in extreme precipitation, snowmelt, or soil
moisture excess, in Poland can lead to fluvial flooding. In this study we employed the dataset …

Assessment of climate change and associated impact on selected sectors in Poland

ZW Kundzewicz, M Piniewski, A Mezghani, T Okruszko… - Acta Geophysica, 2018 - Springer
The present paper offers a brief assessment of climate change and associated impact in
Poland, based on selected results of the Polish–Norwegian CHASE-PL project. Impacts are …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of trends in observed river floods in Poland

N Venegas-Cordero, ZW Kundzewicz, S Jamro… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Study Region Poland (representative sample of 146 flow gauges free of major
human modifications, located in 12 major river basins) Study Focus The objective was to …

Impact of a large flood on mountain river habitats, channel morphology, and valley infrastructure

H Hajdukiewicz, B Wyżga, P Mikuś, J Zawiejska… - Geomorphology, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Biała River, Polish Carpathians, was considerably modified by channelization
and channel incision in the twentieth century. To restore the Biała, establishing an erodible …

Variability of high rainfalls and related synoptic situations causing heavy floods at the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains

T Niedźwiedź, E Łupikasza, I Pińskwar… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2015 - Springer
This contribution provides the basics of the climatology of the Polish Tatra Mountains in a
nutshell, with particular reference to intense precipitation and its relation to atmospheric …

Changes in the hydrodynamics of a mountain river induced by dam reservoir backwater

M Liro, V Ruiz-Villanueva, P Mikuś, B Wyżga… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Upstream from a dam reservoir, river hydrodynamics may be directly changed by temporary
inundation driven by the reservoir. This triggers morphological river changes which may …

Factors controlling large-wood transport in a mountain river

V Ruiz-Villanueva, B Wyżga, J Zawiejska… - Geomorphology, 2016 - Elsevier
As with bedload transport, wood transport in rivers is governed by several factors such as
flow regime, geomorphic configuration of the channel and floodplain, or wood size and …