• A watershed year : anatomy of the Iowa floods of 2008
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: anatomy of the Iowa floods of 2008
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: MutelCornelia Fleischer,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Iowa City
    Published: University of Iowa Press;
    Year of Publication: c2010
    Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 250 p., [10] p. of plates)ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). :
    Series: A bur oak book
    Subject: Floods - History - Iowa -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781587299278/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9781587299278electronic bk.
    ISBN: 1587299275electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9781587298547pbk.
    ISBN: 1587298546pbk.
    Content Note: 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 yourfloodwaters? / 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
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