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Hydrology handbook - Google Books Result
American Society of Civil Engineers. Task ... - 1996 - Science - 784 pages
They commonly identify the magnitude of an event by the instantaneous maximum flow rate or flood "peak" in cubic meters per second (m3/s) or cubic feet per ...
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Flood risk management: new concepts and methods for objective ...
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management and taking into account flood risk and socially acceptable risk. .... two local parameters which are the instantaneous maximum flow of a 10-year ...
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Fawn Creek Culverts Prevent Fish Passage
... would pass the estimated design flood for Hal Creek at the Beaver Creek Road: ... culverts are too small to pass the 2-year instantaneous maximum flow. ...
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Causative Mechanisms of Peak Flows and the Effect on Flood ...
by T Kirkham - 2001
Flood frequency analysis is a practical tool used in forest hydrology for designing ... For water years 1964 to 1996, the instantaneous maximum flow was ...
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Evaluating wetland flow regulating functions using discharge time ...
Dec 8, 2004 ... The functions evaluated are baseflow maintenance and flood ..... A reference 'instantaneous maximum flow' curve was established in a ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hyp.5555
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CAUSES OF PEAK FLOWS IN NORTHWESTERN MONTANA AND NORTHEASTERN IDAHO1
Figure 8. Flood-Frequency Curve, Boulder Creek. Skew = 1.2. 89. WATER RESOURCES BULLETIN .+oo++oo p. PREDICTED FLOOD FREQUENCY. + INSTANTANEOUS MAXIMUM FLOW ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1752-1688.1995.tb03366.x

flash flood ***crest stage peak flow***

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[PDF] 1 The WFO Hydrologic Forecast System (WHFS) and Flash Flood ... - : PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick view
If we then multiply the flow at flood stage , by the ratio of MAP and FFG , in this example 2, then we have the estimated forecast peak flow for the ...
www.crh.noaa.gov/crh/ssd/pdf/ta02-02.pdf

[PDF] The June 19, 2007 Delaware County Flash Flood: A meteorological ... - : PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML
River stages from 19-23 June 2007. Flash flood crest at Cooks Falls is depicted in ... of the site of Downsville Dam and/or peak flow hydrograph generation, ...
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COMET Basic Hydrologic Sciences Course Outline - According to NOAA's National Weather Service, a flash flood is a life-threatening flood that begins within 6 ... Conduct a frequency analysis given peak flow data for a river ... Examine how changes in precipitation can influence the expected crest ... Validate how the river forecast model did for the peak stage ...
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FLOOD GLOSSARY - A warning issued by the NWS to warn of flash flooding that is imminent or ... Flood Crest/Crest: The highest value of the stage or streamflow attained by .... Peak Flow: The maximum rate of flow through a watercourse for a given storm ...
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The Flood Of 1969 - Of them all, six floods have produced crest flows through Minot exceeding ... Engineers have estimated the peak flow of 1904 at 12000 cubic feet per second. ... The peak stage of 1904 was found to have been 21.9 feet above the zero of a staff .... summer flash-flood, pouring in from a coulee, hit Velva in 1962. ...
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[PDF] June 2006 Flood - : PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick view
Localized flash flooding began. June 25. The heaviest widespread rainfall occurred from June 26 to .... specific estimates of flood crest stages at selected locations on rivers and .... actual runoff and peak flow. Additionally, ...
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flash flood
 
–noun
a sudden and destructive rush of water down a narrow gully or over a sloping surface, caused by heavy rainfall.