Abstract The Little Ice Age (LIA) is known as one of the coldest stages of the Holocene. Most
records from the Northern Hemisphere show evidence of significantly colder conditions …

A wide variety of processes controls the time of occurrence, duration, extent, and severity of
river floods. Classifying flood events by their causative processes may assist in enhancing …

The author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and “one of the 50 people who could save the
planet”(The Guardian) delivers a groundbreaking book that presents smarter, more cost …

Historical hydrology can be defined as a research field occupying the interface between
hydrology and history, with the objectives: to reconstruct temporal and spatial patterns of …

Palaeoflood chronologies from seven Spanish river basins and floodplain aggradation
chronologies from thirteen rivers are analysed. These fluvial records were divided in to two …

There is a long history of human–riverine interactions throughout the period of agriculture
that in some regions of the world started several thousand years ago. These interactions …

The magnitudes of the largest known floods of the River Rhine in Basel since 1268 were
assessed using a hydraulic model drawing on a set of pre-instrumental evidence and daily …

Abstract The Spanish Mediterranean river basin provides a good background for studying
floods from documentary and bibliographical sources within the specialty of historical …

Abstract Series of reconstructed historical floods are valuable sources of proxy data that can
be utilized for the study of flooding fluctuations in the pre-instrumental period. In this work …

The Guadalentín River, located in southeast Spain, is considered one of the most torrential
rivers in Spain, as indicated by catastrophic events such as the 1879 flood that caused 777 …