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1 online resource (132 pages) |
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Compass series Improving American River flood frequency analyses |
| Contents |
Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- DATA SOURCES AND NON-STATIONARITY -- FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS -- IMPLICATIONS FOR FLOODPLAIN CERTIFICATION -- RESEARCH NEEDS -- 1 Sacramento and the Struggle to Manage Flood Risk -- SETTLING IN THE FLOODPLAIN -- RISK REDUCTION EFFORTS -- CURRENT PLANNING EFFORTS AND CONTROVERSIES -- Flood Flow Frequency Relationships -- Hydrologic Risk and Uncertainty Analysis -- TECHNICAL ISSUES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- USACE Approach -- Analyses |
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Reactions to USACE Analysis2 Data Sources -- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FLOOD FREQUENCY DATA -- Systematic Streamflow Data -- Precipitation Data -- Historical Flood Data -- Paleoflood Data -- Regional Analyses of Hydrometeorologic Extremes -- AMERICAN RIVER DATA -- Homogeneity of the Systematic Flood Record -- Historical Activities in the American River Basin -- Historical Data -- Paleoflood Data -- Envelope Curves -- Probable Maximum Flood -- SUMMARY -- 3 Flood Frequency Estimates for the American River -- INTRODUCTION -- BULLETIN 17-B |
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Estimation of the Skew ParameterOutliers -- Historical and Paleoflood Information -- Alternative Treatments of Outliers and Historical and Paleoflood Information -- Censoring -- Historical and Paleoflood Data -- EXPECTED PROBABILITY -- SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE APPROACH -- ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN RIVER DATA -- Estimation of Average Three-Day Flows from Instantaneous Peak Flows -- Generalized Skew Coefficient -- Alternative Frequency Estimates for the American River Data -- Results -- Low Censoring -- Beyond Bulletin 17-B -- SUMMARY |
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4 Climate and Floods: Role of Non-Stationarity GENERAL METEOROLOGICAL FEATURES OF MAJOR FLOODS -- OBSERVED CLIMATE AND STREAMFLOW VARIABILITY -- Non-Stationarity of American River Floods -- Trends in Systematic Records of Other Nearby Basins -- Trends in California -- U.S. Trends -- Relation of American River to Trends in Hemispheric Circulation -- Changes in Seasonality -- Trends in Longer Proxy Records -- SOURCES OF SIERRA NEVADA CLIMATE VARIABILITY -- El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) -- Western US. and California Climate Relations to ENSO |
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Regimes of El Niño/Southern OscillationPacific Decadal Oscillation -- The Pacific Decadal Oscillation as a Potential Modulator of ENSO Effects -- Regimes in ENSO Resulting from PDO Decadal Modulation -- Other Potential PDO Effects Not Involving ENSO -- Other Potential Natural Influences on California -- GLOBAL CHANGE ISSUES -- SUMMARY -- 5 Summary and Recommendations -- RECOMMENDED FLOOD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION -- BEYOND BULLETIN 17-B -- POST-1950 INCREASE IN FREQUENCY OF LARGE FLOODS -- IMPLICATIONS FOR FLOODPLAIN CERTIFICATION -- RESEARCH NEEDS |
| Bibliography |
""References"" |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Floods -- California -- American River
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Floods.
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California -- American River.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309538930 |
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0309538939 |
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0309064333 |
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9780309064330 |
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