HERRAMIENTAS DE GESTIÓN HIDROLÓGICA Y DE ALERTA TEMPRANA EN EL SAIH-JÚCAR

Abstract

The Júcar River has a distinctly Mediterranean behaviour, characterised by a great disproportion between ordinary and extraordinary water flows, as well as an extreme system of water flows with high-magnitude rises that causes the river to overflow about every century, flooding its banks. Occasionally this causes significant damages to the land and the communities, as it happened in 1982. This situation led to the need of implementing Automatic Hydrological Information Systems (SAIH, in Spanish), which provides real-time hydrological-hydraulic information and enables the prediction of the future behaviour of the basins. The entire Júcar river basin is divided into sub-basins, in which there are Remote Stations (RS) and Points of Concentration (PC). The River Basin Processing Centre (RBPC) regularly examines concentrators and, as it is the final destination for the data, it oversees their organisation and management. This network has a hierarchical structure with two levels: the RSs communicate with the PCs via secondary network protocol and the PCs transfer information to the RBPC via primary network protocol. The aim of this presentation is to introduce the new applications that enable the optimization in the hydrological management and early warning.