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Persistent ENSO Forcing on Holocene Flooding in the Middle‐Lower Yangtze River at Millennial Timescales

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters
El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most dominant interannual signal of climate variability and profoundly affects river flooding globally, especially in East Asia. However, ENSO also has ∼2,000 and ∼1,000‐year cycles, but due to the lack of flood
Fei Peng   +5 more
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Depositional style and tectonostratigraphic evolution of the El Bierzo Tertiary Subbasin (Pyrenean orogen, NW Spain)

open access: yesGeologica Acta, 2015
El Bierzo Tertiary sub-basin (Oligocene–Miocene, NW Spain) is a small remnant of the western Duero Basin, a nonmarine broken foreland basin developed in front of the Cantabrian Mountains (Pyrenean orogen).
N. HEREDIA   +3 more
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27 Mile Wash flood plain delineation study

open access: yes, 1992
: This report describes the hydrologic and hydraulic analysis. Development in the lower end of the watershed has occurred without knowledge of the floodplain's characteristics.Special study (Pima County Regional Flood Control District (Ariz.)) ; 22PDF ...

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CONSTRUCTION PROPERTIES OF FLOOD DEPOSITS IN THE DIWANIYAH RIVER

open access: yesНаука и техника, 2012
Natural foundations of the buildings located in the middle Iraq region are represented by quaternary deposits that have been formed as residue of fine (clay and dusty) particles being transported by low-speed water flow.
A. Al-Robai Ali
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Holocene Paleoflood Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Events in the Poompuhar Reach, Lower Cauvery River

open access: yesGeoHazards
The Late Holocene flood history of the Cauvery River floodplain in the Poompuhar region was reconstructed using a multiproxy sedimentological approach applied to three trench cores. Lithostratigraphy, loss on ignition (LOI), magnetic susceptibility (MS),
Somasundharam Magalingam   +1 more
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Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association

open access: yes, 2018
Rob Rash PE, PLS Executive Vice President World’s Third Largest Watershed Drainage Basin for 41% of the United States St. Francis Levee District Created in 1893 by State Legislature Protects Seven Counties – Mississippi (5), Crittenden (4), Craighead ...
Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association;
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Lower Bound on Preserved Flood Duration in Fluvial Bedform Stratigraphy

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters
River bedforms and their deposits—fluvial cross strata— respond to floods. However, it is unclear if all floods are equally represented in cross strata.
Robert C. Mahon   +5 more
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Flood damage, vulnerability and risk perception - challenges for flood damage research [PDF]

open access: yes
The current state-of-the-art in flood damage analysis mainly focuses on the economic evaluation of tangible flood effects. It is contended in this discussion paper that important economic, social and ecological aspects of flood-related vulnerabilities ...
Meyer, Volker, Messner, Frank
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Knowledge of, and response to, upland flash flooding: a case study of flood risk management of the 2005 flash flood in upper Ryedale, North Yorkshire, U.K. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The dangerous hazard posed by flash flooding to upland communities is likely to increase due to climate change. The flood risk management policy approach has become predominant since the 1990s, with an emphasis on the public awareness of, and responses ...
HOPKINS, JONATHAN
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Minutes of organization meeting of Arkansas Drainage and Flood Control Commission, July 18, 1927

open access: yes, 1927
Three typed pages. Minutes of a meeting of various levee boards, Chambers of Commerce, bankers, and business interests called by Governor John E. Martineau through the Arkansas Flood Commission.

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