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.

Ingram, B. Lynn, 1961-
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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Notes:

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