Overview
- Two-dimensional simulations built from public, open-access data reproduced the extent and timing of flooding across the Poyo–Torrent and Poçalet–Saleta ravine systems.
- Water reached densely populated areas in under an hour from the headwaters, with peak velocities measured at up to 8 meters per second.
- Flood depths surpassed four metres at some urban locations, quantifying the event’s extreme energy and damaging potential.
- The modeling identifies the V-31 highway as producing backwater effects that worsened upstream inundation and channeled flows along historic paleocourses.
- Published in Cuadernos de Geografía, the peer-reviewed work details near–real-time applications for search operations, infrastructure reviews, and climate-adaptation planning.