Orographic influence on frontally-produced flooding in northern Vermont - The July 14-15, 1997, event

Physical Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-38

  Dupigny Giroux, Lesley Ann ^a   Hanning, John R ^b   Engstrom, Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Vermont Department of Agriculture Food and Markets   (United States)

^c Vermont Agency of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme event; Floods; GIS; Hydroclimatology

Indexed keywords

COLD FRONT; EXTREME EVENT; FLASH FLOOD; FLOODING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 33747352821     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.27.1.1     Document Type: Article

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