An analysis of extreme flood events during the past 400years at Taihu Lake, China

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 500, Issue , 2013, Pages 217-225

  Li, Yongfei ^a   Guo, Ya ^a   Yu, Ge ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Extreme lake levels; Historical floods; Sedimentary flood signals; Stele flood measures; Taihu Lake

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; HISTORICAL FLOODS; LAKE LEVELS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; STELE FLOOD MEASURES; TAIHU LAKES;

CATCHMENTS; GAGES; HISTORY; LAKES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS;

FLOODS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CATCHMENT; CORE ANALYSIS; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; GAUGE; HISTORICAL RECORD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PROBABILITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

CHINA; TAIHU LAKE; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84883051224     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.02.028     Document Type: Article

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