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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
Floods > Iowa > History.
Inondations > Iowa > Histoire.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Floods
Iowa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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