Climate variability and flood frequency estimation for the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Rivers

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1509-1523

  Olsen, J Rolf ^a   Stedinger, Jery R ^b   Matalas, Nicholas C ^c   Stakhiv, Eugene Z ^a  

^a US Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c US Army Corps of Engineers ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate trends; Climate variability; Floods; Surface water hydrology; Upper Mississippi River, Lower Missouri River

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY;

RIVERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; PEAK FLOW;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033374487     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb04234.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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