During recent decades there has been an increase in extreme flood events and their
intensity in most regions, mainly driven by climate change. Furthermore, these critical events …

En este artículo se presenta el diseño, construcción, calibración y validación a través de
prácticas experimentales usando un canal hidráulico de pendiente variable. El equipo …

Las lluvias de corto plazo se caracterizan por ser de alta intensidad y corta duración. En
zonas urbanas, este tipo de precipitación produce inundaciones repentinas debido a que la …

Food security has been always a critical challenge for humankind, especially for developing
countries. Different players around the world are engaged at different levels to resolve and …

Prolonged and high intensity rainfall often saturates urban drainage systems and generates
urban pluvial flooding, resulting in hazardous flash floods. The city most affected by urban …

Rainfall monitoring networks are key elements for the development of alerts and prediction
models for communities at risk of flooding during high intensity rainfall events. Currently …

Operational real-time flood forecast is often done on the prediction of discharges at specific
gauges using hydrological models. Hydrodynamic models, which can produce inundation …

In the Colombian Caribbean region, there are few studies that evaluated the behavior of one
of the most commonly used variables in hydrological analyses: the maximum daily rainfall …

Este estudio cuantitativo tuvo como objetivo principal diseñar una compuerta hidráulica
para la derivación del caudal del río en la comunidad de El Cerrito, cantón Rocafuerte, con …

La aplicación de tecnologías para la caracterización físico-química en ríos es necesaria
para estandarizar las metodologías, obtener resultados precisos y valorar el estado …