Publicación: HISTORICAL CATASTROPHIC FLOODS AT THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE ATACAMA DESERT: A MULTI-ARCHIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COPIAPO RIVER EXTREME EVENTS
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2024
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GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
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THE LAST HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL EXTREME EVENT THAT CAUSED LARGE FLOODS IN THE SOUTHERN ATACAMA DESERT IN MARCH 2015 RAISED CONCERN ABOUT HOW LITTLE WAS KNOWN ABOUT THE FLUVIAL DYNAMIC OF THESE ARID BASINS. UNDERSTANDING THE RESPONSE OF INTERMITTENT AND EPHEMERAL RIVERS IN DRYLANDS TO THE PRESENT CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHANGE IS CRITICAL TO PRESERVE THE ECOLOGICAL AND HUMAN SYSTEMS THEY SUPPORT, TO SUSTAINABLY MANAGE THEIR SCARCE WATER RESOURCES AND TO DEVELOP FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT PLANS. WE HAVE STUDIED THE INSTRUMENTAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD AND EXPLORED THE POTENTIAL OF THE COPIAP
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Palaeohydrology, Historical floods, Flood frequency analysis, Copiapo River, Atacama
