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A Watershed Year : Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008 /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Bur oak book.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.