Benito Ferrández Gerardo
- Departamento: Geología
- Dirección física: Serrano 115bis, 28034 Madrid
- Teléfono: 917822083
- Email: benito@mncn.csic.es
- Página web externa: https://www.floodsresearch.com/
- Número ORCID: 0000-0003-0724-1790
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Investigación
Gerardo Benito, Profesor de Investigación CSIC, en el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid. Su investigación se centra en los riesgos de inundaciones (hidrología), la reconstrucción de registros hidrológicos (paleoinundaciones e inundaciones históricas) y el paleo-clima, y en temas relacionados con la Geomorfología fluvial y la Geología del Cuaternario. Ha participado como Autor en el Quinto informe del Panel Intergubernamental en Cambio Climático (IPCC), y en el Informe Especial del IPCC sobre “Gestión de Riesgos sobre eventos extremos y desastres para avanzar en la adaptación al Cambio Climático”. Ha sido coordinador de varios Proyectos Europeos en temas relacionados con los riesgos de inundaciones (SPHERE, WADE y PHEFRA) y autor de más de 250 trabajos en revistas y libros.
Research Interest
Gerardo Benito, Ph.D. in Geosciences (1989) from the University of Zaragoza (Spain), was associate research fellow at the University of Arizona (1989-1992), and since 1992 a member of the research staff at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), holding currently a Research Professor position. His research interests are within Quaternary Geology, with emphasis in palaeohydrology and geomorphology, and particularly on the study of past and recent floods. Regarding the latter, his works have focused on flood hazards in relation to climate and environmental changes, with field sites in Europe, North and South America, and Africa. His research activity is combined with active participation as Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on "Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation" (SREX), and of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, WG II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in chapter 3 on “Freshwater Resources”.
Hydrology, Fluvial Geomorphology, Palaeohydrology, Palaeoflood hydrology, Flood risks, Quaternary Sciences.
Research ID: E-5456-2013
Orcid Code: 0000-0003-0724-1790
Publicaciones relevantes
+ Acceso a todas las publicaciones- Baker, V.R., Benito, G., Brown, A.G., Carling, P.A., Enzel, Y., Greenbaum, N. et al. (2021) Fluvial palaeohydrology in the 21st century and beyond. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 1– 24
- Rabanaque, M.P., Martínez-Fernández, V., Calle, M. & Benito, G. (2021) Basin-wide hydromorphological analysis of ephemeral streams using machine learning algorithms. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 1– 17
- Zituni, R., Greenbaum, N., Porat, N., & Benito, G. (2021). Magnitude, frequency and hazard assessment of the largest floods in steep, mountainous bedrock channels of the Southern Judean Desert, Israel. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 37, 100886
- Corella, J. P., Benito, G., et al. (2021). A 1400-years flood frequency reconstruction for the Basque country (N Spain): Integrating geological, historical and instrumental datasets. Quaternary Science Reviews, 262, 106963
- Bartolomé, M., Sancho, C., Benito, G., et al (2021). Effects of glaciation on karst hydrology and sedimentology during the Last Glacial Cycle: The case of Granito cave, Central Pyrenees (Spain). CATENA, 206, 105252
- Benito, G., Thorndycraft, V.R., Medialdea, A. et al., 2021. Declining discharge of glacier outburst floods through the Holocene in central Patagonia. Quaternary Science Reviews 256, 106810
- Santos-González, J., et al. (2021) Geomorphological impact, hydraulics and watershed- lake connectivity during extreme floods in mountain areas: The 1959 Vega de Tera dam failure, NW Spain. Geomorphology 375, 107531
- Benito, G.; Sanchez-Moya, Y.; Medialdea, A.; Barriendos, M.; Calle, M.; Rico, M.; Sopeña, A.; Machado, M.J. 2020. Extreme Floods in Small Mediterranean Catchments: Long-Term Response to Climate Variability and Change. Water, 12, 1008.
- Benito, G.; Thorndycraft, V.R., 2020. Catastrophic glacial-lake outburst flooding of the Patagonian Ice Sheet. Earth-Science Reviews 200, 102996, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102996.
- Calle, M.; Calle, J.; Alho, P.; Benito, G., 2020. Inferring sediment transfers and functional connectivity of rivers from repeat topographic surveys. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms n/a, doi:10.1002/esp.4765.
- Rodriguez-Lloveras, X.; Machado, M.J.; Sanchez-Moya, Y.; Calle, M.; Medialdea, A.; Sopeña, A.; Benito, G., 2020. Impacts of sediment connectivity on Holocene alluvial records across a Mediterranean basin (Guadalentín River, SE-Spain). CATENA 187, 104321,
- Grodek, T.; Morin, E.; Helman, D.; Lensky, I.; Dahan, O.; Seely, M.; Benito, G.; Enzel, Y., 2020. Eco-hydrology and geomorphology of the largest floods along the hyperarid Kuiseb River, Namibia. Journal of Hydrology 582, 124450, doi:https://doi.org/10.101
- Greenbaum, N.; Schwartz, U.; Carling, P.; Bergman, N.; Mushkin, A.; Zeituni, R.; Halevi, R.; Benito, G.; Porat, N., 2020. Frequency of boulders transport during large floods in hyperarid areas using paleoflood analysis – An example from the Negev Desert,
- Thorndycraft, V.R., Bendle, J., Matthews, I.P., Palmer, A., Benito, G., Davies, B.J., Sancho, C., Pike, J.H., Martin, J.R.V., Fabel, D. Medealdea, A. 2019. Reply to comments by Bourgois et al. (2019) on: “Glacial lake evolution and Atlantic-Pacific draina
- Corella, J.P., Benito G., Wilhelm B., Montoya E., Rull V., Vegas T., Valero-Garcés, B.L., 2019. A millennium-long perspective of flood-related seasonal sediment yield in Mediterranean watersheds. Global and Planetary Change 177, 127–140.
- Thorndycraft, V.R., Bendle, J., Benito, G., Davies, B., Sancho, C., Palmer, A., Fabel, D. Medealdea, A. and Martin, J, R.V. (2019). Glacial lake evolution and Atlantic-Pacific drainage reversals during deglaciation of the Patagonian Ice Sheet. Quaternary
- Ballesteros Cánovas J.A., Stoffel, M.; Benito, G.; Rohrer M., David Barriopedro, D.; Ricardo García-Herrera R., Martin Beniston M., Brönnimann S., 2018. On the extraordinary winter flood episode over the North Atlantic Basin in 1936. Annals of the New Yor
- Wilhelm, B., Ballesteros, J.A., Macdonald, N., Toonen, W.H.J., Baker, V.R., Barriendos, M., Benito, G., Brauer, A., Corella, J.P., Denniston, R., Glasser, R., Ionita, M., Kahle, M., Liu, T., Luestscher, M., Mudelsee, M., Munoz, S., Shulte, L., St. George,
- Cloete, G.C.; Benito, G.; Grodek, T.; Porat, N.; Enzel, Y. Analyses of the magnitude and frequency of a 400-year flood record in the Fish River Basin, Namibia. Geomorphology 320, 1-17.
- Calle, M., Alho, P., Benito G., Monitoring ephemeral river changes during floods with SfM photogrammetry. Journal of Iberian Geology,
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