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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ingram, B. Lynn, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--West (U.S.)--Forecasting.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--West (U.S.).
- Hydrology--West (U.S.).
- Hydrology.
- Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 0520954807
- 9780520954809
- Publisher Number:
- 99954435256
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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