The West without water : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow
Title:
The West without water : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow
Author:
Ingram, B. Lynn, 1961-
Malamud-Roam, Frances, 1961-
ISBN:
9780520286009
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
xx, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Abstract:
From drought to deluge : "normal" climate in the West -- The 1861-1862 floods : lessons lost -- The great droughts of the twentieth century -- Why is climate so variable in the West? -- Reading the past : the Earth's history books -- From ice to fire : into the Holocene -- The "long drought" of the mid-Holocene -- Ice returns : the neoglaciation -- The great "medieval drought" -- The little ice age : megafloods and climate swings -- Why climate changes : cycles and oscillations -- The hydraulic era : salmon and dams -- Future climate change and the American West -- What the past tells us about tomorrow.
Subject:
| Climatic changes -- West (U.S.) -- Forecasting. |
| Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) |
| Hydrology -- West (U.S.) |
Summary:
From drought to deluge : "normal" climate in the West -- The 1861-1862 floods : lessons lost -- The great droughts of the twentieth century -- Why is climate so variable in the West? -- Reading the past : the Earth's history books -- From ice to fire : into the Holocene -- The "long drought" of the mid-Holocene -- Ice returns : the neoglaciation -- The great "medieval drought" -- The little ice age : megafloods and climate swings -- Why climate changes : cycles and oscillations -- The hydraulic era : salmon and dams -- Future climate change and the American West -- What the past tells us about tomorrow.