Rivers and Floods
Morphodynamics of bedrock influenced dryland rivers during extreme floods : insights from the Kruger National Park, South Africa
... dryland rivers (discussed earlier herein), early investiga- tions in the Kruger National Park ...the rivers are characterized by alternating phases of building and ...low-magnitude floods, sedi ments ...
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Bankfull discharge and recurrence intervals in Irish rivers floods
... Different definitions of the bankfull condition in rivers are based on morphological characteristics, boundary conditions and geometrical properties. Consequently, the magnitude and associated return period of the ...
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On the relationship between atmospheric rivers, weather types and floods in Galicia (NW Spain)
... Atmospheric rivers (ARs) – long and narrow struc- tures of anomalously high water vapor flux located in the warm sector of extratropical cyclones – have been shown to be closely related to extreme precipitation ...
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INDIAN FLOODS SCENARIO : FACTS AND FIGURES
... (iii).The North-west River Region:The main rivers in this region are the Indus,Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum.This region covers thestates of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and partsof Himachal Pradesh, Haryana ...
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Extreme Hydrological Phenomena in the Esil River Basin: Genesis, General Patterns of Manifestation
... of floods in the republic in various regions are heavy and prolonged rains, intense melting of snow cover on the plains, failure of lakes and reservoirs, water surge on large bodies of water, flood ice, ice jams ...
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A Comparative Analysis of Exceptional Flood Events in the Context of Heavy Rains in the Summer of 2010: Siret Basin (NE Romania) Case Study
... The exceptional floods occurred in the rivers of Siret, Suceava, Moldova, Bistrita, Trotus and so on.. 20.[r] ...
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Influence of solar forcing, climate variability and modes of low frequency atmospheric variability on summer floods in Switzerland
... major floods, but cannot prevent completely the total impact of category VS and C floods as occurred for example during the 1987 and 2005 ...Aare rivers starting from 1480 (Schulte et ...catastrophic ...
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Floods downstream the Yesa Reservoir, Spanish Pyrenees
... of floods downstream the dams, to avoid the coincidence of floods in rivers of the same ...cases, floods contribute decisively to the infilling of reservoirs In this paper the effect of the ...
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Flood Frequency Analysis of Otamiri River Catchment Area Using Gumbels Distribution Method.
... of floods and services or of lines resulting from the action of flood water and the silt and debris that they ...that floods can happen anywhere based on the change in climate and its variants, the reason ...
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Estimation of peak discharges of historical floods
... As most large river channels are excavated to improve nav- igation and narrowed to provide space for additional settle- ments, the natural conditions are rarely preserved. Due to missing systematic investigations and ...
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Mumbai Floods, Reasons and Solutions.
... The Mithi rivers catchment area being reduced due to extensive reclamation of land contributes a lot towards the flooding along its path. The flooding of Mithi River has direct or indirect repercussions on the ...
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Study Of Flash Floods
... A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or melt water ...
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Two-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling of channel processes and floods characteristics at the confluence of the Amur and Zeya rivers
... Abstract. Two-dimensional hydrodynamic STREAM_2D model have been applied to the confluence of Amur and Zeya rivers. Main flow characteristics and possible channel changes are considered during modeling for two ...
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Quantifying and contextualising cyclone driven, extreme flood magnitudes in bedrock influenced dryland rivers
... dryland rivers during extreme floods: insights from the Kruger National Park, South Africa... Geological Society of America Bulletin..[r] ...
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Rivers we can't bring ourselves to clean – historical insights into the pollution of the Moselle River (France), 1850–2000
... Rivers are good objects on which to build interdisciplinary research, as the existing literature shows (Petts et al., 1989; Meybeck et al., 1998). History plays a great role in those re- search initiatives. One ...
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A flood geodatabase and its climatological applications: the case of Catalonia for the last century
... Abstract. Floods are the natural hazards that produce the highest number of casualties and material damage in the Western ...historical floods and to find an efficient way to manage this geographical ...of ...
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The Influence of Community Participation in Management of Water Shed as a Flood Mitigation Strategy on Household Livelihood in Nyando Flood Plains, Kisumu County
... now, floods have been the most common natural disaster causing a lot of natural disaster fatalities in the world ...[2] Floods claim more lives and damage properties than any other natural ...disaster. ...
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Vulnerability Assessment of Arunachal Pradesh to Floods
... originate in the Himalayas. The vulnerability of the north- east India to water induced disasters is of vital importance because of its poor adaptive capacity. Developing, testing and implementing indicators to identify ...
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Planning Napier 1850 1968 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Planning at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
... nature.” Floods are discussed in some detail, and other hazards such as earthquakes and fogs are referred to, although Pawson does not specifically mention Napier in this ...
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Oral Contraceptive Pills: Socio-demographic Characteristics of Acceptors at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
... This retrospective study was conducted at the family planning clinic of the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH), Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State in South- South geopolitical zone of ...
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