Improving American River flood frequency analyses - National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on American River Flood Frequencies (Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999)
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 -- Regimes of El Niño/Southern Oscillation -- Pacific 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 -- References -- Appendix Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.
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Keywords: Floods -- California -- American River; American River (Calif.); Inondations -- Californie -- American (Rivière); American (Calif. : Rivière); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- Flood Control; Floods -- California -- American River; American River (Calif.); Floods; California -- American River