By P. Kyle House, Robert H. Webb, Victor R. Baker, Daniel R. Levish

Published through the yankee Geophysical Union as a part of the Water technological know-how and alertness Series.

Ancient Floods, smooth dangers: ideas and functions of Paleoflood Hydrology is a milestone booklet with contributions to simple and utilized technological know-how. reviews in hydrology, climatology, hydraulics, geochronology, geomorphology, and stratigraphy spotlight fresh advances in instruments, options, and strategies for reading the actual facts of enormous floods. The papers during this quantity illustrate a number of vital issues, including:

  • how paleoflood hydrology offers a foundation for the estimation of flood importance and frequency for flood danger analysis
  • the dating among weather variability and flood frequency
  • advances within the hydraulic modeling of floods
  • new purposes of distant sensing technology
  • superior figuring out of the sedimentology, stratigraphy, and chronology of flood deposits
  • insight into geographic and geologic controls on floods

A exact quantity, this paintings bargains a wealth of data to someone fascinated about the examine of flood science.

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Before proceedingon to longer time scales,we first briefly summarize factors associatedwith floods in the Southwest United States, and then consider associations between floods and ENSO. The causesof major floodsat variousspatialscalesin the southwestUnited Stateshavebeenpreviouslydiscussed by Maddox et al. [ 1980]; Hirschboeck[ 1985, 1987a, 1988, 1991], Enzel et al. [ 1989], Cayanand Webb [1992], Webb and Betancourt [1992], Ely et al. [1994], House and Hirschboeck[1997], Hirschboecket al. [2000], and House andBaker [2001].

In the PacificNorthwest,the relationshipfadesgreatlynear mid-century,then returnsstronglytoward its end. McCabe andDettinger[ 1999] alsonote strongchangesin the correlation betweenthe SOI and SST in the equatorialPacific, from moderateto weak to strongas the centuryprogresses. For this region, this behavior is another potential source of nonstationarybehavior. The variationsthey describedo not correspondwith those of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (describedbelow), especiallyits prominentchangepoints.

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