Download or read book Flooding in the Central United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Floods Central Valley of California written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atmospheric Rivers written by F. Martin Ralph and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the standard reference based on roughly 20 years of research on atmospheric rivers, emphasizing progress made on key research and applications questions and remaining knowledge gaps. The book presents the history of atmospheric-rivers research, the current state of scientific knowledge, tools, and policy-relevant (science-informed) problems that lend themselves to real-world application of the research—and how the topic fits into larger national and global contexts. This book is written by a global team of authors who have conducted and published the majority of critical research on atmospheric rivers over the past years. The book is intended to benefit practitioners in the fields of meteorology, hydrology and related disciplines, including students as well as senior researchers.
Download or read book The Tale of Flooding Over the Central United States written by Iman Mallakpour and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given that heavy precipitation is responsible for the observed changes in flooding, further analyses were performed to examine the climatic driving forces that are responsible for the observed changes in the frequency of precipitation, and consequently flooding at the seasonal scale; particular emphasis was paid to the role played by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The results of this dissertation indicate that changes in the climate system play a significant role in explaining the variations in the frequency of heavy precipitation and flooding over the central United States at both the seasonal and sub-seasonal scales. The Pacific North American (PNA) teleconnection pattern was found to play a particularly prominent role. Therefore, these results suggest that recent observed changes in the frequency of flood events over the central United States can be largely attributed to changes in the frequency of heavy precipitation events, which were in turn driven by changes in the climate system.
Download or read book Central Valley Project of California written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over time. Catastrophic flooding from recent hurricanes, including Superstorm Sandy in New York (2012) and Hurricane Harvey in Houston (2017), caused billions of dollars in property damage, adversely affected millions of people, and damaged the economic well-being of major metropolitan areas. Flooding takes a heavy toll even in years without a named storm or event. Major freshwater flood events from 2004 to 2014 cost an average of $9 billion in direct damage and 71 lives annually. These figures do not include the cumulative costs of frequent, small floods, which can be similar to those of infrequent extreme floods. Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States contributes to existing knowledge by examining real-world examples in specific metropolitan areas. This report identifies commonalities and variances among the case study metropolitan areas in terms of causes, adverse impacts, unexpected problems in recovery, or effective mitigation strategies, as well as key themes of urban flooding. It also relates, as appropriate, causes and actions of urban flooding to existing federal resources or policies.
Download or read book Recent Flooding in California written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central United States Flooding of June 2008 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primed by greater-than-normal winter snow amounts in late 2007 and a generally wet spring in 2008, many locations in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, and Wisconsin experienced record flooding in June 2008 following heavy rain from late May into early June. Major flooding occurred at many other locations in these states. Flooding also affected Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. ... In all, 143 National Weather Service (NWS) river forecast locations experienced major flooding, with 73 of these locations establishing records. Large areas of the central United States were devastated. The Federal Emergency Management Agency issued numerous Disaster Declarations. ... Although the 2008 flooding event was less severe than that in 1993, which brought devastating flooding to the area, significant portions of the region were hit much harder in 2008. The damage affected the lives and livelihoods of many people in many communities, sometimes catastrophically. Eleven people in six states lost their lives as a direct result of the flooding; eight of those deaths were vehicle related. Flooding inflicted major damage on residences, agriculture, businesses, public services, and transportation (Section 2). Reports indicate damages of more than $5 billion. Given the severity and wide geographic coverage of the flooding, the NWS formed a 10-member Service Assessment Team to evaluate NWS products and services during the event. The Service Assessment Team documented the event across the extensive geographic area affected. The team focused its on-site assessment of NWS products and services on Iowa as representative of overall products and services throughout the affected area. Flash flooding and severe weather were not part of the assessment. Areas of particular focus for the team included: usefulness of the tools and data in the forecast process; collaboration among the NWS, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the forecast process; accuracy and effectiveness of service; and societal perceptions. ... From August 18-29, 2008, team members assessed damage areas and interviewed many people in Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois. Staff members of several NWS forecast offices and key customers and partners were interviewed, including local emergency management offices, flood and levee district offices, television stations, and commercial and institutional entities. Visits were also made to offices of the USGS and USACE.
Download or read book Floods and Flood Control written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Flood of 1993 Post flood Report written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. North Central Division and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Flood of 1993 Post flood Report Appendix C Upper Mississippi River Basin written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. North Central Division and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virginia Floods written by United States. Environmental Science Services Administration and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Resum of the Heavy Snowfall and Persistent Cold of the Winter of 1968 1969 in the Upper Midwest and the Flood Situation Resulting Therefrom written by United States. Weather Bureau. Central Region and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The past winter was an extraordinary one, weatherwise, for most residents of the Upper Midwest. There were numerous heavy snowstorms in various sections of the area during the winter and more especially within the 75-day period beginning in mid-December and running through February. Some of these heavy snowstorms were widespread. A number of them were accompanied by strong winds and much drifting and blowing of snow resulting in blizzard or near blizzard conditions. Several were interspersed with ice storms in some localities. One of the cumulative effects of the numerous heavy snowstorms, accompanied by persistently below normal temperatures, has been the development of an unusually deep mantle of snow with a very high water content over much of the area. This has resulted in the imminence of severe flooding on many streams in the area of the Upper and Central Midwest as the spring snowmelt period begins to come to the area. The following sections and the accompanying figures and table point up the nature of the past winter's weather in the Upper Midwest and the seriousness of the flood situation that exists and is even now rapidly unfolding from the snowmelt"--Introduction
Download or read book Summary of Floods in the United States During 1960 written by Julian Ordean Rostvedt and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flood Plain Information written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flood Control in the Mississippi Valley written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heavy Rainfall and Flooding Associated with Atmospheric Rivers Over the Central United States written by Munir Ahmad Nayak and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overall, ARs generally last less than three days, but exceptionally persistent ARs (more than six days) are also observed. In terms of their impacts on precipitation, AR-related precipitation is able to explain a large portion of the year-to-year variations in the total annual precipitation over the central United States. Moreover, 40% of the top 1% daily precipitation extremes are associated with ARs, and more than 70% of the annual instantaneous peak discharges and peaks-over-threshold floods are associated with these storms, in particular during winter and spring. The relationship between the frequency of ARs and three prominent large-scale atmospheric modes [Pacific-North American (PNA) teleconnection, Artic Oscillation (AO), and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)] is investigated, and the results are used to statistically model the frequency of ARs at the seasonal scale. PNA and AO indices play a significant role in the winter season, when the AR frequency is the highest. Building on these insights, different spatio-temporal Bayesian hierarchical models are developed to describe the frequency of winter heavy precipitation events based on ARs and the large-scale atmospheric modes. The results suggest that over much of the central United States, PNA and AO can be helpful in describing the frequency of ARs in winter, which in turn can be useful to characterize the frequency of heavy rainfall events over the central United States. Because of the large impacts that these storms have, their short-term predictability is examined by using outputs from five numerical weather prediction (NWP) models with a lead-time up to 15 days. While there are differences among the five NWP models, the results show that the skill in forecasting the occurrence and location of ARs over the central United States decreases with increasing lead time, and the models have positive skills up to the seven-day lead time.
