{"title":"Post-flood analysis of the flood from the rupture of the stone dam in Rudno nad Hronom on May 17, 2021","authors":"P. Pekárová, P. Miklánek, J. Pekár, J. Podolinská","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The study is aimed at reconstructing the course of the flood from May 17, 2021 breach of the stone dam in Rudno nad Hronom. Firstly, the volume of water in the reservoir before its breach was determined. The reservoir storage volume was estimated to be 14 807 m 3 . Then, we focused on the analysis of the hydrological regime in the wider Rudniansky Brook region. In order to derive the flood wave course from the rainfall, a series of 15-minute discharge from neighbouring water gauges measured by the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute were analysed. In analysing the long-term trends of precipitation and temperature series we used data from the Banská Štiavnica meteorological station (period 1901–2020). In the second part, based on several field measurements after the flood event, we estimated the peak flows of floods from May 17, 2021 above the reservoir and under the reservoir. One hundred meters above the reservoir culmination reached 7.8 m 3 s -1 , under the reservoir it was between 80 to 100 m 3 s -1 . Finally, we reconstructed the course of the flood wave from the precipitation above the reservoir by hydrological analogy and by simple rainfall-runoff hydrological model NLC. The course of the breakthrough wave from the reservoir water just below the dam was determined to be triangular in shape so that the peak reached 90 m 3 s -1 and the volume was 15,000 m 3 .","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122817738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Liová, Peter Valent, K. Hlavčová, S. Kohnová, T. Bacigál, J. Szolgay
{"title":"A methodology for the estimation of control flood wave hydrographs for the Horné Orešany reservoir","authors":"Anna Liová, Peter Valent, K. Hlavčová, S. Kohnová, T. Bacigál, J. Szolgay","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Recent changes in climatic characteristics and consequent changes in the discharges and in the hydrological response of watersheds raise questions about the safety of water structures. Changes in flood wave characteristics (shape, volume, peak flow) may significantly affect the functionality of these structures. The study proposes a methodology for constructing design wave and flood hydrographs using discharge time series. A case study was carried out in the Little Carpathians watershed of the Parná River, above the profile of the Horné Orešany reservoir in Slovakia. The volumes and characteristic shapes of the flood waves with the maximum annual and seasonal discharges were determined using the Floodsep software. Subsequently, the T -year annual and seasonal discharges were estimated. Then, for pairs of the T year discharges and the associated volumes of flood waves, a joint probability distribution was constructed by copula functions. The associated volume of the T -year peak discharges was selected from the copula, and the probability of exceeding it was determined. Based on this analysis, a set of annual and seasonal control flood waves with the design maximum discharge, the associated volume with the selected probability, and the typical shape of the flood wave was constructed. This research provides satisfactory results for designing control waves necessary for assessing water structures with extreme loads and establishing a functional methodology for assessing other water structures in the region.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129364579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of mean daily discharge data for under-mountain and highland-lowland types of rivers","authors":"W. Almikaeel, L. Čubanová, A. Šoltész","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Most Slovak rivers have increasing spring flow followed by a period or two of low flow in the summer, autumn, and, in some cases, winter. The flow rate fluctuations in two different streams in Slovakia are being investigated in this study. The study focused on an under-mountain and a lowland-highland river to investigate the low and peak flow periods and to identify the trends in monthly and annual mean flows for both rivers. Analysing daily mean discharge data from two different types of streams requires the use of a robust normalization approach to verify the comparability between the chosen streams. On both streams, a broad statistical low-flow analysis was performed over different study periods, as well as a hydrological drought analysis utilizing the water-bearing coefficient approach over the period 2010–2020. The evaluation for the foothill river in Slovakia demonstrates that snow melting has a significant impact on annual runoff in the spring months, and both rivers have a low flow period in August, September, and October. Despite the considerable variations in the catchment area, geographical, and hydrological characteristics, drought analysis for the years 2010 to 2020 found a lack of normality and a dry hydrological situation in both streams.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128888634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation, trend detection and temporal changes in maximum annual flow volume series of the Hron River in Slovakia","authors":"Veronika Bačová Mitková","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The floods characterized by the volume exceedance probabilities and return periods with specific T-year flows may assist in enhancing the accuracy of local flood frequency estimates, and support the detection and interpretation of any changes in flood occurrence and their magnitudes. Therefore, the present paper deals with the trend detection and with temporal changes in the maximum flows volume series of the Hron River at Banská Bystrica and at Brehy gauging stations in Slovakia during the 90 years. The period 1931–2020 mean daily flows of the waves belong to the maximum annual flows and the series of maximum annual flows of the Hron River at Banská Bystrica and at Brehy gauging stations were used as input data. Subsequently the annual maximum runoff volumes with t-day duration were calculated. The Log-Pearson distribution type III were used to determine the T-year values of the maximum runoff volumes with t-day duration. The results indicated that there are decreasing linear trends in maximum annual runoff volumes with some duration of the flow.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113986166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Blaškovičová, Katarína Melová, Soňa Liová, J. Podolinská, Beáta Síčová, Martin Grohoľ
{"title":"The drought characteristics and their changes in selected water-gauging stations in Slovakia in the period 2001–2020 compared to the reference period 1961–2000","authors":"L. Blaškovičová, Katarína Melová, Soňa Liová, J. Podolinská, Beáta Síčová, Martin Grohoľ","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Reassessing the hydrological characteristics with regard to drought is very important in the context of a changing climate. In this paper, we evaluate the drought in terms of changes in hydrological characteristics for the 20-year period 2001– 2020. The evaluation of changes is based on a comparison of data for this period with the currently valid reference period 1961–2000 in 13 selected water-gauging stations. In the analysis of the occurrence of subnormal mean annual discharges ( Q r <90% Q a,1961-2000 ), in most of the evaluated stations, the percentage incidence of such years is higher in the period 2001–2020 than in the reference period. The distribution of runoff throughout the year in the period 2001–2020 in comparison with the reference period in most stations confirms the changes identified in the previous evaluation of the period 2001–2015, i.e. the transfer of part of the usual increased spring runoff to previous, winter months. An exception was water-gauging stations on streams in the mountainous areas of northern Slovakia, where changes are reflected to a lesser extent.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121095298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Halmová, P. Pekárová, J. Podolinská, Katarína Jeneiová
{"title":"The assessment of changes in the long-term water balance in the Krupinica River basin for the period 1931–2020","authors":"D. Halmová, P. Pekárová, J. Podolinská, Katarína Jeneiová","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The study is focused on the evaluation of changes in the hydrological balance of the Krupinica River basin to the Plášťovce station for the entire 90-year period as well as for the three 30-year subperiods 1931–1960, 1961–1990 and 1991–2020. In the first part of the study, the hydrological balance is processed in an annual step on the basis of measured series of average monthly flows from the Krupinica: Plášťovce; monthly precipitation totals on the Krupinica catchment area and average monthly temperatures in the catchment area. The hydrological balance in the monthly step was processed in the second part. Changes in water resources in the river basin over the three mentioned time subperiods were analyzed. The long-term annual precipitation total in the Krupinica River basin for the whole period was 660 mm, the annual runoff depth was 182 mm and the balance evaporation was 478 mm. A comparison of 30-year periods shows a significant decrease in the runoff of Krupinica – from 231 mm to 144 mm. This was even more pronounced in the runoff coefficient – it fell from 0.32 over 0.27 to 0.21 in the last period 1991–2020. In the third part, a simple regression relationship between runoff, precipitation and air temperature was derived to estimate the future development of the annual runoff from the basin. The relationship shows that a 100 mm decrease in precipitation in the Krupinica River basin will cause an average decrease of 52 mm in runoff. And an increase in the average annual temperature by 1°C in the Krupinica River basin results in a decrease in runoff of about 33.5 mm.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128621797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global changes and hydrosphere","authors":"V. Novák","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing population led to the increasing demand to food, raw materials, water and energy. Anthropogenic demands provoke land use structure changes, intensification of its exploitation, deforestation, fossil fuel combustion and related carbon dioxide production. Those phenomena are changing water and energy fluxes of biosphere, and conditions for life. Actual climate change is a result of other global changes both natural and anthropogenic. It is mostly felt as a change of ecosystem temperature, increase of precipitation intensities and totals, as well as their irregular distribution in time and space. Flood periods are followed by long periods without precipitations. Water consumption is increasing; it is renewable resource, but water resources are unevenly distributed and often polluted, therefore unsuitable for use as fresh water. Increasing population as well as increasing consumption of resources lead to the imbalance between our planet production and consumption. To preserve good conditions for population of the Earth, it is necessary to decrease consumption of energy, raw materials and food to reach equilibrium between Earth´s ecosystem production and consumption of the ecosystem products.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128109751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of trends in the time series of maximum water discharges in the Tisza basin rivers within Ukraine","authors":"V. Ovcharuk, M. Goptsiy","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2022-0023.01.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, due to global and local climate changes, according to leading experts, the likelihood of extreme natural phenomena increases. One of the dangerous natural phenomena with impacts on humans and the economy are floods. The Tisza River, which originates in Ukraine and flows further through Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia, has repeatedly become a source of disasters for the population due to the devastating consequences of floods, which have been increasing in recent years. The purpose of this study is to analyze the long-term series of observations of the maximum water discharge on the rivers of the Tisza basin, within Ukraine. Using the methods of statistical analysis, tendencies in the time series of annual maximum water discharges were investigated, its temporal homogeneity was estimated also, as well as the significance of the trends. Using the method of residual mass curves, high-water and low-water periods were distinguished. We also obtained preliminary dependences of the maximum runoff modules on the catchment areas and their heights, which in the future can serve as a basis for the development of a regional calculation method for determining the maximum runoff of ungauged rivers in the region.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125343284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement of design parameters of the sediment reservoirs","authors":"A. Arifjanov, L. Samiev, T. Kaletová","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2021-0022.02.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2021-0022.02.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Sediment reservoirs (SR) are an important part of the irrigation systems, and their construction and operation are resource intensive. At present, such facilities are constructed on water structures mainly to deposit sediments in water by slowing down the flow rate. The design form of the SR is frequently rectangular which makes it difficult to control the sedimentation process by sediment fractions along the length of the flow. Based on the results of the theoretical analyses and field experiments, the design parameters of the SR were improved, and a computational method of sediment distribution developed. A new design of the SR, which allows separating the sediments by fractions has been proposed. In the developed SR, muddy water flows into a special reservoir that reduces the flow velocity, and the sediments are separated by fractions along the length of the cross-section, the width of which increases onwards. Large fractions are deposited by the SR itself and are removed from the facility through the sedimentation gallery. Water flowing through the regulated water-releasing gate equals 5% of the water inflowing to the SR.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133482528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climatology of the extreme heavy precipitation events in Slovakia in the 1951–2020 period","authors":"Ladislav Markovič, P. Faško, J. Pecho","doi":"10.31577/ahs-2021-0022.02.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2021-0022.02.0033","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we investigate extreme heavy precipitation events in the Slovak Republic in the period 1951–2020 in terms of their spatial and temporal distribution with goal to create dynamic-climatological analysis of those patterns of the atmospheric circulation that can eventually lead to the occurrence of the extreme multi-day precipitation events. Heavy precipitation is defined as maximum precipitation total over five consecutive days (Rx5D) where a non-zero daily precipitation total must be recorded every day of selected 5-day period. Spatial and temporal distribution of multiday precipitation totals is affected by many factors, mainly by the processes taking place in the troposphere eventually represented by the synoptic scale atmospheric circulation and by the orographic diversity of the area, which together significantly affects distribution of precipitation in the selected area. Our study is therefore constructed as an analysis of relationships between localized tropospheric circulation defined by the Czechoslovak catalogue of the typified synoptic situations (Brádka, 1968), the predominant wind patterns and the spatiotemporal distribution of Rx5D.","PeriodicalId":321483,"journal":{"name":"Acta Hydrologica Slovaca","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125482337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}