Bibliograph

The West without water, what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow, B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam ; foreword by Sandra L. Postel

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The West without water, what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow, B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam ; foreword by Sandra L. Postel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The West without water

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

818734498

Responsibility statement

B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam ; foreword by Sandra L. Postel

Sub title

what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow

Table Of Contents

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

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