The West without water : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow /
Ingram, B. Lynn,1961-
Malamud-Roam, Frances,1961-
Berkeley : University of California Press,
[2013]
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index.
From drought to deluge : "normal" climate in the West -- The 1861-1862 floods : lessons lost -- The great droughts of the twentieth century -- Why is climate so variable in the West? -- Reading the past : the Earth's history books -- From ice to fire : into the Holocene -- The "long drought" of the mid-Holocene -- Ice returns : the neoglaciation -- The great "medieval drought" -- The little ice age : megafloods and climate swings -- Why climate changes : cycles and oscillations -- The hydraulic era : salmon and dams -- Future climate change and the American West -- What the past tells us about tomorrow.
Climatic changes
Climatic changes
Hydrology