Why were the 2008 floods so large?

A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 19-30

  Krajewski, Witold F ^a   Mantilla, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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