The Extremes of the Extremes: Extraordinary Floods
Edited by Árni Snorasson, Helga P. Finnsdóttir & Marshall E. Moss
IAHS Publication no. 271
Key Word Index
- 100-year quantile, 271-299
- 3-h rainfall, 271-299
- acceptable risk, 271-313
- adaptation, 271-361
- alarm value, 271-231
- analogue, 271-329
- analysis; cluster, 271-15
- annual
- maximum flood, 271-333
- maximum series, 271-299
- peaks rate, 271-25
- Ásbyrgi, 271-107
- Athens; Greece, 271-161
- bias and efficiency, 271-263
- bifurcation, 271-307
- bivariate extreme value distribution, 271-257
- boulder-rich sediment units, 271-107
- boulders, 271-249
- braided rivers, 271-237
- breakup, 271-9
- caldera, 271-121
- canyon, 271-121
- case study
- Croatia, 271-133
- Norway, 271-173
- catalogues, 271-355
- catastrophic, 271-121
- drainage, 271-113
- flood, 271-19, 271-237, 271-277
- century, 271-329
- Cerberus Plains, 271-101
- chalk, 271-93
- climate, 271-25, 271-271, 271-307
- forecasting, 271-329
- cluster analysis, 271-15
- coastal
- Chiapas, 271-385
- floods, 271-355
- comparison, 271-263
- of models, 271-77
- correlation, 271-307
- curve-fitting, 271-263
- cyclonic storm, 271-167
- dam safety, 271-155, 271-283
- damage mitigation, 271-173
- data analysis, 271-77
- decade, 271-329
- design floods, 271-257, 271-367
- detectors, 271-231
- digital elevation model (DEM), 271-211
- discharge, 271-341
- dissolution, 271-199
- drainage basin, 271-373
- drought, 271-3
- dry wadis, 271-211
- eastern Egyptian desert, 271-211
- economic damage, 271-367
- Egypt, 271-211
- electrical conductivity, 271-199, 271-223, 271-231
- ENSO, 271-307, 271-329
- envelope curve, 271-167
- eruption, 271-121
- experimental basins, 271-19
- extraordinary historical floods, 271-129
- extreme
- events, 271-9, 271-51, 271-289
- flood simulation, 271-155
- floods, 271-65, 271-317, 271-329, 271-385
- rainfall events, 271-179
- storm events, 271-161
- values, 271-341
- weather events, 271-141, 271-147
- extremeness, 271-373
- extremes, 271-367
- Filyos River basin; Turkey, 271-317
- flash floods, 271-211
- flood, 271-9, 271-25, 271-45, 271-133, 271-161, 271-289, 271-307, 271-367
- catastrophe, 271-87
- causes, 271-173
- defence, 271-19
- estimation, 271-313, 271-323
- events in Switzerland, 271-77
- forecast model, 271-347
- forecasting, 271-347
- frequency, 271-3, 271-271, 271-283, 271-333
- analysis, 271-65, 271-263
- history, 271-243
- hydrology, 271-173, 271-373
- intensity, 271-367
- inundation mapping , 271-313
- modelling, 271-179
- monitoring, 271-77
- plains, 271-367
- preparedness, 271-147
- protection, 271-147, 271-361
- risk of, 271-373
- routing, 271-71
- sampling models, 271-263
- scenario, 271-155
- warnings , 271-379
- risk mapping, 271-179
- annual maximum , 271-333
- probability of, 271-373
- flooding on permeable catchments, 271-93
- forecast, 271-307, 271-341
- forest hydrology, 271-19
- frequency, 271-9
- analysis, 271-289
- frozen sediments, 271-57
- generalized
- Pareto distribution, 271-299
- extreme-value distribution, 271-299
- geochemical warning, 271-231
- geomorphic impact, 271-107, 271-249
- geomorphological
- outwash plain, 271-243
- unit hydrograph, 271-187
- geostatistics, 271-45
- geothermal, 271-223, 271-231
- activity, 271-199
- GIS (geographical information system), 271-211, 271-313
- glacial
- lake outburst floods, 271-141
- rivers, 271-223, 271-231
- glacier, 271-205
- Hardangerjřkulen, 271-31
- hydrology, 271-193
- margin retreat, 271-243
- outburst flood, 271-37
- glaciofluvial, 271-193, 271-237
- global warming, 271-9
- Grand Forks; North Dakota; USA, 271-87
- Grímsvötn; Iceland, 271-57
- groundwater level-river flow correlation, 271-93
- HBV model, 271-155, 271-341
- health effects, 271-379
- heat transfer, 271-57
- heavy rainfall, 271-167
- highest floods, 271-167
- Himalayas, 271-141
- historical floods, 271-65, 271-155, 271-263
- human influence, 271-367
- hurricane, 271-307
- hydraulic modelling, 271-313
- hydraulics, 271-347
- hydrofracturing, 271-71
- hydrogen sulphide, 271-223
- hydrograph parameterization, 271-257
- hydropower
- plant, 271-133
- regulation, 271-367
- hyperconcentrated flow, 271-107
- ice
- jam, 271-9
- blocks, 271-205, 271-249
- ice-dam lake, 271-121
- Iceland, 271-71, 271-121, 271-205, 271-217, 271-223, 271-231, 271-243, 271-249
- Grímsvötn, 271-57
- impacts, 271-243, 271-379
- index flood, 271-289, 271-323, 271-333
- India, 271-167
- Indian rivers, 271-167
- insurance, 271-179
- interferometry, 271-217
- Italy, 271-3, 271-45
- joint return period, 271-257
- jokulhlaup, 271-31, 271-37, 271-57, 271-71, 271-121, 271-205, 271-217, 271-223, 271-231, 271-237, 271-355
- deposits, 271-107
- November 1996, 271-243
- Jökulsá
- á Sólheimasandi, 271-249
- á Fjöllum, 271-107
- karst, 271-133
- Katla, 271-249
- kettlehole, 271-205
- kinematic wave forecasting, 271-317
- landforms, 271-121
- landslide
- damming, 271-141
- floods, 271-355
- Laurentide Ice Sheet, 271-113
- L-moment, 271-299
- Logistic model, 271-257
- longitudinal grooving, 271-101
- magnitude and frequency, 271-237
- Mars, 271-101
- Marte Vallis, 271-101
- Maximum
- floods, 271-355
- rainfall, 271-15
- mean excess function, 271-299
- Mediterranean, 271-3
- basins, 271-25, 271-271
- meltwater; subglacial, 271-113
- mercury, 271-223
- Mexico, 271-385
- MIKE 21 HD, 271-37
- mixed marginal Gumbel distribution, 271-257
- model
- flood forecast, 271-347
- HBV, 271-155, 271-341
- Logistic, 271-257
- modelling
- flood, 271-179
- hydraulic , 271-313
- rainfall, 271-179
- stochastic, 271-317
- monitoring, 271-3, 271-223, 271-231
- Monte Carlo simulation, 271-263, 271-271
- morphology, 271-205
- morphometric parameters, 271-211
- multifractal, 271-51
- Mýrdalsjökull, 271-249
- natural disasters, 271-141, 271-385
- Nepal, 271-141
- Nicaragua, 271-307
- northern Iceland, 271-107
- Norway, 271-31, 271-155, 271-313
- November 1996 jökulhlaup, 271-243
- numerical modelling, 271-37
- Odra River; Poland, 271-147
- order statistics, 271-289
- ordinary least squares, 271-333
- outburst discharge model, 271-31
- outwash fan, 271-249
- palaeohydrology, 271-237
- partial duration series, 271-299
- peak(s)
- flood discharge, 271-373
- flow, 271-121
- over threshold, 271-299
- Pearson-III, 271-263
- physiography, 271-141
- Poland; Odra River, 271-147
- power law, 271-277, 271-289
- precipitation, 271-3, 271-129, 271-307
- preparatory; antecedent and contemporary
- precipitation, 271-129
- probability, 271-367
- of failure, 271-263
- of flood, 271-373
- weighted moments, 271-263
- probable maximum precipitation, 271-283
- proglacial, 271-249
- outwash fans, 271-193
- zone, 271-217
- quantile, 271-263
- rainfall, 271-45, 271-51, 271-133
- modelling, 271-179
- variability, 271-187
- maximum, 271-15
- rainfall-runoff, 271-129, 271-271, 271-347, 271-355
- modelling, 271-65, 271-187
- real-time monitoring, 271-199
- Red River of the North, 271-87
- Red Sea coast, 271-211
- region of influence, 271-323
- regional analysis, 271-25, 271-45
- regionalization, 271-323
- regression, 271-333
- reservoir, 271-133
- return period, 271-9, 271-65
- risk
- categories, 271-211
- of flooding, 271-373
- river, 271-9
- floods, 271-147
- flow forecasting, 271-317
- Lavant; Chichester UK, 271-93
- Rhine, 271-347
- Waithe Beck; Grainsby UK, 271-93
- road network, 271-211
- Rome, 271-129
- runoff, 271-51
- process description, 271-77
- processes, 271-65
- sandur, 271-205, 271-217, 271-237
- scale, 271-329
- scaling, 271-277, 271-341
- seasonal variation, 271-223
- sedimentology, 271-205, 271-237
- semiarid, 271-187
- shape parameter, 271-299
- simulation, 271-341
- sink, 271-133
- Skeiđarárjökull; Iceland, 271-193
- Skeiđarársandar; Iceland, 271-243
- snowmelt flooding, 271-87
- social dimensions, 271-379
- southern Italy, 271-25, 271-271
- spatial variability, 271-341
- spectral, 271-329
- spillways, 271-167
- statistical analysis, 271-161
- statistics, 271-15
- stochastic models, 271-317
- streamlined forms, 271-101
- subglacial
- eruption, 271-199, 271-223, 271-231
- hydrology, 271-71
- meltwater , 271-113
- volcanism, 271-107
- summer monsoon, 271-167
- supercooling, 271-57
- supraglacial, 271-71
- surge
- -induced floods, 271-193
- -type glaciers , 271-193
- sustainability criteria and indices, 271-361
- sustainable development, 271-361
- Switzerland, 271-77, 271-323
- temporary storage, 271-249
- torrent, 271-133
- two-component extreme value distribution, 271-45
- UK
- River Lavant; Chichester, 271-93
- River Waithe Beck; Grainsby, 271-93
- ungauged basins, 271-323
- USA; Grand Forks, 271-87
- variable contributing area, 271-271
- volcanic, 271-223, 271-231
- warming; global, 271-9
- water
- level, 271-9, 271-307
- losses, 271-25
- storage, 271-113
- weighted least squares, 271-333