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The West without water : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow
题名:
The West without water : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow
著者:
Ingram, B. Lynn, 1961-

Malamud-Roam, Frances, 1961-
ISBN:
9780520286009
出版信息:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.
规格:
xx, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
摘要:
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.
主题:
Climatic changes -- West (U.S.) -- Forecasting.
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
Hydrology -- West (U.S.)
摘要:
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.