Cataclysmic Scabland flooding: Insights from a simple depth-averaged numerical model

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1400-1408

  Miyamoto, Hideaki ^a,b   Komatsu, Goro ^c   Baker, Victor R ^d   Dohm, James M ^d   Ito, Kazumasa ^e   Tosaka, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c International Research School of Planetary Sciences   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataclysmic floods; Channeled Scabland; Depth averaged; Glacial Lake Missoula; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

CATACLYSMIC FLOODS; CHANNELED SCABLAND; DEPTH AVERAGED; GLACIAL LAKE MISSOULA;

FLOODS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; FLOODING; GLACIAL LAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLEISTOCENE; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 34147111798     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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