An edition of Floods (1998)

Floods

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Floods
Michael Allaby, Michael Allaby
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An edition of Floods (1998)

Floods

Rev. ed.

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Presents information on these most damaging of all natural disasters from the perspective of basic meterology and environmental science, including floodplains, aquifers, tsunamis, the cost of floods, and prevention.

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Facts On File
Language
English
Pages
196

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Floods, Juvenile literature

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2003, Facts On File
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Table of Contents

Where floods happen : El Nino
Evaporation, precipitation, and transpiration : partial pressure and vapor pressure ; humidity
How the land drains
Rivers : why it rains more on mountainsides ; kinetic energy
Floodplains and meanders : the Bernoulli effect
Flash floods
Storms and cloudbursts : lapse rates and stability ; latent heat and dewpoint
Thunder and lightning : charge separation
Tsunamis : tsunami warning system
Tides : laws of motion ; the Coriolis effect
Tidal surges : air pressure, highs and lows
Monsoons : intertropical convergence and the equatorial trough
Aquifers, springs, and wells
Vegetation and natural drainage
The Nile floods and the Aswan Dams
Wet rice farming
Coastal erosion : glacioisostasy ; Isle of the Dead
Saltwater infiltration : osmosis
Flood damage
Floods and soil erosion : soil erosion
Floods of the past
Land dranage
Wetlands
Levees
Dams
Canalization
Flood prediction
Safety.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-187).

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New York
Series
Facts on File science library, Dangerous weather
Genre
Juvenile literature.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
551.48/9
Library of Congress
GB1399 .A45 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 196 p. :
Number of pages
196

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19679846M
ISBN 10
0816047944
ISBN 13
9780816047949
LCCN
2002153845
OCLC/WorldCat
51053411
Library Thing
3850957

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Oregon Libraries MARC record

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