A 1000-year history of large floods in the Upper Ganga catchment, central Himalaya, India

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 77, Issue , 2013, Pages 156-166

  Wasson, R J ^a   Sundriyal, Y P ^b   Chaudhary, Shipra ^b,e   Jaiswal, Manoj K ^c   Morthekai, P ^d   Sati, S P ^b   Juyal, Navin ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^d PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flood deposits; Flood history; Himalaya; Landslide lake outburst floods

Indexed keywords

EFFECTS OF RAINFALLS; HEAVY RAINFALL; HIMALAYAS; OUTBURST FLOODS; PENINSULAR INDIA; PRELIMINARY INFORMATION; RADIOCARBON METHOD; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; RUNOFF; STRATIGRAPHY;

FLOODS;

CATCHMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD WAVE; GLACIAL LAKE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

GANGES RIVER; HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 84882981523     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.022     Document Type: Article

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