Research Catalog

Title

Floods / Michael Allaby ; illustrations by Richard Garratt.

Author

Allaby, Michael

Publication

New York : Facts On File, c2003.

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Details

Description

xii, 196 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Facts on File science library
• Dangerous weather
• Allaby, Michael. Dangerous weather.

Subject

Floods > Juvenile literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-187).

Contents

Where floods happen : El Nino -- Evaporation, precipitation, and transpiration : partial pressure and vapor pressure ; humidity -- How the land drains -- Rivers : why it rains more on mountainsides ; kinetic energy -- Floodplains and meanders : the Bernoulli effect -- Flash floods -- Storms and cloudbursts : lapse rates and stability ; latent heat and dewpoint -- Thunder and lightning : charge separation -- Tsunamis : tsunami warning system -- Tides : laws of motion ; the Coriolis effect -- Tidal surges : air pressure, highs and lows -- Monsoons : intertropical convergence and the equatorial trough -- Aquifers, springs, and wells -- Vegetation and natural drainage -- The Nile floods and the Aswan Dams -- Wet rice farming -- Coastal erosion : glacioisostasy ; Isle of the Dead -- Saltwater infiltration : osmosis -- Flood damage -- Floods and soil erosion : soil erosion -- Floods of the past -- Land dranage -- Wetlands -- Levees -- Dams -- Canalization -- Flood prediction -- Safety.

Call Number

JSE 14-61

ISBN

0816047944

LCCN

2002153845

OCLC

51053411

Author

Allaby, Michael.

Title

Floods / Michael Allaby ; illustrations by Richard Garratt.

Imprint

New York : Facts On File, c2003.

Edition

Rev. ed.

Series

Facts on File science library

Dangerous weather

Allaby, Michael. Dangerous weather.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-187).

Research Call Number

JSE 14-61