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A watershed year : anatomy of the Iowa floods of 2008 /

In June 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions; their amazing size-flowing in places at a rate nearly double that of the previous record flood-and the rapidity of their rise ruined farmlands and displaced thousands of residents and hundreds of bu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2010.
Colección:Bur oak book.
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505 0 |a What causes floods in Iowa? / A. Allen Bradley, Jr. -- Why were the 2008 floods so large? / Witold F. Krajewski and Ricardo Mantilla -- Iowa City and the flood / Richard A. Fosse -- The University of Iowa and the flood / Barbara Eckstein and Rodney Lehnertz -- Linn County and the flood / Linda Langston -- Forecasting a record flood / A. Allen Bradley, Jr. -- Estimating flood frequency / David Eash -- The hydrological footprint of annual crops / Michael Burkhart -- The hydrology of urban landscapes / Wayne Petersen -- The Coralville Dam and Reservoir: Design and operation / John Castle -- The dam and the flood: Cause or cure? / Robert F. Sayre -- Was climate change involved? / Eugene S. Takle -- Flood effects on archaeological sites / Joe Alan Artz and Lynn M. Alex -- Flood effects on modern communities / Cornelia F. Mutel -- Economic losses from the floods / Daniel Otto -- How did the floods affect farmland? / Richard Cruse, Hillary Olson, and John M. Laflen -- What's in your floodwaters? / Dana Kolpin, and Keri Hornbuckle -- Air quality hazards / Peter S. Thorne -- Flood effects on natural communities / John Peterson -- When (not if) the big one comes / Jack Riessen -- Watershed-based flood management / Douglas M. Johnston -- Flood barriers / Nathan C. Young and A. Jacob Odgaard -- Managing urban runoff / Wayne Petersen -- Perennial farming systems that resist flooding / Laura Jackson and Dennis Keeney -- The great flood of 1993: Did we learn any lessons? / Gerald E. Galloway. 
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