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Overview

Gerardo Benito is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with extensive work spanning multiple interconnected subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, and Soil Science.

The principal topics of their research include Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Landslides and related hazards, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Benito has published numerous papers in several scientific journals and venues. Their frequent publication venues include Geomorphology, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Quaternary Science Reviews, Cuadernos de Geografía de la Universitat de València, and the SSRN Electronic Journal.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years, 2020, Nature
  • Effects of sediment transport on flood hazards: Lessons learned and remaining challenges, 2023, Geomorphology
  • Recent heatwaves as a prelude to climate extremes in the western Mediterranean region, 2024, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Inferring sediment transfers and functional connectivity of rivers from repeat topographic surveys, 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Extreme Floods in Small Mediterranean Catchments: Long-Term Response to Climate Variability and Change, 2020, Water

Benito frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Mikel Calle
  • Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas
  • Daniel Vázquez-Tarrío
  • Miguel Bartolomé
  • Tamir Grodek

Best Publications

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

    Zbigniew W Kundzewicz;Shinjiro Kanae;Sonia I Seneviratne;John W Handmer

  • Reported tailings dam failures. A review of the European incidents in the worldwide context.

    María Teresa Rico;Gerardo Benito;A. R. Salgueiro;Andrés Díez-Herrero

  • Use of Systematic, Palaeoflood and Historical Data for the Improvement of Flood Risk Estimation. Review of Scientific Methods

    Gerardo Benito;Michel Lang;Mariano Barriendos;M. Carmen Llasat

  • Floods from tailings dam failures

    María Teresa Rico;Gerardo Benito;Andrés Díez-Herrero

  • Cambio global: impacto de la actividad humana sobre el sistema Tierra

    Sergio Alonso Oroza;Gerardo Benito;Jordi Dachs;Carlos M. Duarte

  • Past hydrological events reflected in the Holocene fluvial record of Europe

    M.G. Macklin;G. Benito;K.J. Gregory;E. Johnstone

  • Changes in impacts of climate extremes: Human systems and ecosystems

    John Handmer;Yasushi Honda;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nigel Arnell

  • Historical hydrology for studying flood risk in Europe

    Rudolf Brázdil;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Gerardo Benito

  • Paleohydrology of late pleistocene superflooding, altay mountains, siberia.

    Victor R. Baker;Gerardo Benito;Alexey N. Rudoy

  • The topographic data source of digital terrain models as a key element in the accuracy of hydraulic flood modelling

    A. Casas;G. Benito;V.R. Thorndycraft;M. Rico

  • Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years

    Günter Blöschl;Andrea Kiss;Alberto Viglione;Mariano Barriendos

  • Palaeoflood record of the Tagus River (Central Spain) during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene

    Gerardo Benito;Alfonso Sopeña;Yolanda Sánchez-Moya;Marı́a J. Machado

  • Magnitude and frequency of flooding in the Tagus Basin (Central Spain) over the last Millennium

    Gerardo Benito;Andrés Díez-Herrero;María Fernández De Villalta

  • Palaeoflood and floodplain records from Spain: Evidence for long-term climate variability and environmental changes

    G. Benito;V.R. Thorndycraft;M. Rico;Y. Sánchez-Moya

  • Holocene flooding and climate change in the Mediterranean

    Gerardo Benito;Mark G. Macklin;Mark G. Macklin;Christoph Zielhofer;Anna F. Jones

  • The Holocene fluvial chronology of Spain: evidence from a newly compiled radiocarbon database

    V. R. Thorndycraft;Gerardo Benito

  • The Little Ice Age in Iberian mountains

    M. Oliva;J. Ruiz-Fernández;M. Barriendos;G. Benito

  • Repeated glacial-lake outburst floods in Patagonia: an increasing hazard?

    Alejandro Dussaillant;Gerardo Benito;Wouter Buytaert;Wouter Buytaert;Paul A. Carling

  • A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean

    Jürg Luterbacher;Ricardo García-Herrera;Sena Akcer-On;Rob Allan

  • Palaeohydrology and Environmental Change

    G. Benito;Victor R. Baker;K. J. Gregory

  • Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

    J. Handmer;Y. Honda;Kundzewicz;N. Arnell

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Sancho
Carlos Sancho University of Alicante
Mark G. Macklin
Mark G. Macklin University of Lincoln
Yehouda Enzel
Yehouda Enzel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Blas L. Valero-Garcés
Blas L. Valero-Garcés Spanish National Research Council
Petteri Alho
Petteri Alho University of Turku
Mariano Barriendos
Mariano Barriendos University of Barcelona
Alfredo Pérez-González
Alfredo Pérez-González Complutense University of Madrid
Kenneth Gregory
Kenneth Gregory University of Southampton
Edward J. Rhodes
Edward J. Rhodes University of Sheffield
Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences

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