Destructive Water: Water-Caused Natural Disasters, Their Abatement and ControlGeorge H. Leavesley |
Contents
Water in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction Arthur J Askew | 3 |
The Great USA Flood of 1993 Lee W Larson | 13 |
The flood events of 19931994 and 1995 in the Rhine River basin H Engel | 21 |
Flooding in southeastern United States from Tropical Storm Alberto July 1994 | 33 |
Selection of the form of a calculated flood hydrograph in designing water release | 41 |
Hydrological analysis of high flows and floods in the Sava River near Zagreb | 51 |
Flooding from rainonsnow events in the Sierra Nevada Richard Kattelmann | 59 |
Investigation of some heavy floods in small alpine catchment areas in Austria | 67 |
Flood Forecasting | 3 |
Operational aspects for warning of severe weather phenomena Djavdat Nurbaev | 159 |
Comparison of Multilayer Perceptron and Radial Basis Function networks | 173 |
Automated system of runoff forecasting for the Amudarya River basin | 193 |
Flood forecasting model for the alpine drainage basin of the River Drau in Austria | 211 |
Application of mathematical models for flood forecasting in Sri Lanka | 225 |
Katarina Hajtdsovd Ales Svoboda | 240 |
Flood warning and operational flood forecasting in the German part of the Rhine | 253 |
Flood trends in Austria Franz Nobilis Peter Lorenz 11 | 77 |
Catastrophic floods and their risk in the rivers of Albania M Bogdani | 83 |
Estimating the risk of rainfall and snowmelt disastrous floods using physically | 95 |
application of surface water monitoring data Polina Berg | 101 |
Glacier generated floods Jospeh S Walder Andrew G Fountain | 107 |
Storm surge flooding in Chittagong city and associated risks M Mozzammel Hoque | 115 |
Zonification of areas with inundation risk by means of mathematical modelling | 123 |
Assessment of risks of flooding by use of a 2D model Andre Paquier | 137 |
new concepts and methods for objective negotiations | 145 |
Bacterial and chemical pollution of littoral waters of Lake Ohrid in the area | 267 |
Influence of flooding events on suspended matter quality of the Meuse River | 285 |
Flash floods and their control in the Indian arid zone K D Sharma | 305 |
Managing the impacts of storm surges on Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria | 325 |
Flood destruction and abatement in China Liang Zhixin | 345 |
a new Delta Plan in The Netherlands Frank P Halite | 361 |
How to manage flood waves in the Dutch Meuse Joop H Gerretsen | 383 |
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