Filters: Tags: flash floods (X)
42 results (84ms)
Filters
Date Range
Extensions Types Contacts Categories Tag Types Tag Schemes |
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Contours,
Data Interpretation,
Errors,
Estimating,
Flash Floods,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy & Non-Living Resources; ASFA,
Arid Lands,
Arid environments,
Catchment Areas,
Catchment area,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Automation,
Evacuation plans,
Flash floods,
Flood forecasting,
Flood plain management,
Wildfire can significantly alter the hydrologic response of a watershed to the extent that even modest rainstorms can produce dangerous flash floods and debris flows. The USGS conducts post-fire debris-flow hazard assessments for select fires in the Western U.S. We use geospatial data related to basin morphometry, burn severity, soil properties, and rainfall characteristics to estimate the probability and volume of debris flows that may occur in response to a design storm.
Many difficult problems in river mechanics may have stemmed from inadequate understanding of the multiplicity and interaction of fluvial processes. Some of the problems may have been solved, but in a very simplified, approximate way. Many efforts have been directed, but without apparent success, to fully account for the causes, occurrences, and mechanisms of catastrophic events, such as flash floods, debris flows, and channel changes resulting from torrential storms, sudden snow or glacier melt, dam break, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. Such failures may be partially attributed to the deficiency and incompleteness of existing empirical formulas (or models) representing the relationships between various processes...
Categories: Project;
Tags: Debris Flows,
Flash Floods,
Geomorphology and Sediment Transport,
Rivers and Streams,
Watershed Studies
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Flash Floods,
Mountains,
Precipitation,
Radar,
Rainfall,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Catchment areas,
Flash Floods,
Floods and flooding,
Hydrograph Analysis,
Hydrographs,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Cyclones,
Energy transfer,
Flash floods,
Gobi Desert,
Heat transfer,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Carbon Dioxide,
Climatic Changes,
Convective Precipitation,
Flash Floods,
Global Warming,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Aerial Photography,
Bangladesh,
Coastal landforms,
Coastal morphology,
Coastal plains,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: SW 0835 Streamflow and runoff,
USA, Nevada, Nye Cty., Yucca Mt., Coyote Wash,
Water Resources Abstracts,
alluvial deposits,
detritus,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Assessments,
Emergency preparedness,
Flash Floods,
Flood Forecasting,
Flooding,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: SW 5040 Data acquisition,
Water Resources Abstracts,
climatology,
flash floods,
forecasting,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Disasters,
Economic Aspects,
Flash Floods,
Floods,
Hazards,
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Arid Lands,
Basins (Vessels) (see also Reservoirs, Tanks),
Catchment areas,
Data Acquisition,
Data Interpretation,
|