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Czaja, Stanisław W., Robert Machowski, and Mariusz Rzętała. "Floods in the Upper Part of Vistula and Odra River Basins in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Powodzie W Górnej Części Dorzeczy Wisły I Odry W XIX I XX Wieku." Chemistry-Didactics-Ecology-Metrology 19, no. 1-2 (2014): 127–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cdem-2014-0012.
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Abstract The discussion of floods in this paper covers the section of the Odra River basin from its source down to the mouth of the Nysa Klodzka River and the section of the Vistula River basin down to the Krakow profile. The area of the upper part of Odra River basin is 13,455 km2 and the length of the river bed in this section is ca. 273.0 km. In the reach examined, the Vistula River is 184.8 km long and has a catchment area of approximately 8,101 km2. Geographical and environmental conditions in the upper part of the Vistula and Odra Rivers basins are conducive to floods both in the summer and winter seasons. The analyses conducted for the 19th and 20th centuries demonstrate that two main types of floods can be distinguished. Floods with a single flood wave peak occurred in the following years in the upper Odra River basin: 1813, 1831, 1879, 1889, 1890 and 1896, and on the Vistula River they were recorded in 1805, 1813, 1816, 1818, 1826, 1830, 1834, 1844 and 1845. In the 20th century, similar phenomena were recorded on the Odra River in 1903, 1909, 1911, 1915, 1925, 1960, 1970 and 1985, and on the Vistula River they occurred in 1903, 1908, 1925, 1931, 1934, 1939, 1948, 1951, 1970, 1972, 1991, 1996, 1997 and 1999. The second category includes floods with two, three or more flood wave peaks. These are caused by successive episodes of high rainfall separated by dry periods that last for a few days, a fortnight or even several weeks. Such floods occurred on the upper Odra River in 1847, 1854, 1880, 1888, 1892, 1897 and 1899; while on the Vistula River only two (1839 and 1843) floods featured two flood wave peaks. In the 20th century on the upper Odra River, floods of this type occurred in 1902, 1926, 1939, 1940, 1972, 1977 and 1997; on the upper Vistula River, they were recorded in 1906, 1915, 1919, 1920, 1940, 1958, 1960 and 1987.
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Fernández Bou, A. S., R. Ventura De Sá, and M. Cataldi. "Flood forecasting in the upper Uruguay River basin." Natural Hazards 79, no. 2 (2015): 1239–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-015-1903-7.
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Luiz, Gislaine Cristine, and Patrícia De Araújo Romão. "Interação Solo-Atmosfera e Processos de Inundação e Alagamento na Cidade de Goiânia-GO." Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física 12, no. 5 (2019): 1891. http://dx.doi.org/10.26848/rbgf.v12.5.p1891-1903.
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Os processos do ciclo hidrológico respondem diretamente às modificações no uso do solo. A cidade de Goiânia tem apresentado aumento de inundações e de alagamentos, ao mesmo tempo em que o padrão das chuvas demostra diminuição dos dias com eventos pluviométricos e aumento da intensidade desses episódios. A pesquisa que ora se apresenta analisa as áreas sujeitas à inundação e alagamentos, correlacionando-as com o padrão dos episódios pluviais na cidade e às condições de infiltração do solo. Foram utilizados dados secundários obtidos junto ao 10º DISME/INMET, relativos à precipitação e, também informações de ocorrência de alagamentos e inundações concedidas pela Defesa Civil. As informações primárias consistiram na obtenção da duração e intensidade da chuva em cinco diferentes localidades da cidade; uso e ocupação do solo e; testes da capacidade de infiltração do solo de superfície, em 10 áreas distintas. Os episódios pluviais apresentaram em 24h intensidades entre 8,3 mm e 99,1 mm; intensidades em 10 minutos de 10,9 mm, 13,9 mm e 19,6 mm durante o período noturno e na madrugada; destaque para as intensidades entre 31,6 mm.h-1 e 76,6 mm.h-1, principalmente nas porções sul, norte e leste da cidade, também no período noturno. A capacidade de infiltração mensurada variou entre 0,012 mm/h e 373,25 mm/h, conforme uso e ocupação do solo. As intensidades observadas superaram capacidade de infiltração, aumentando o escoamento superficial das águas pluviais por causa do alto índice de impermeabilização. Tal fato, associado a condições naturais de baixas declividades e extensos comprimento das rampas, de grande parte de Goiânia, tem favorecido o aumento da velocidade do escoamento superficial e a ocorrência de alagamentos e inundações. Soil-Atmosphere Interaction and Flooding Processes in Goiania-GO City A B S T R A C TThe processes of the hydrological cycle respond directly to changes in land use. The city of Goiânia presented an increase of flooding processes, while the pattern of rains shows a decrease of the days with pluviometric events and increase of the intensity of these episodes. The research presented here analyzes the areas subject to floods and overflow, correlating them with the pluviometric pattern in the city and soil infiltration capacity. Secondary data obtained from the 10ºDISME/INMET on precipitation were used, as well as information on the occurrence of flooding processes granted by the Civil Defense. The primary information consisted in obtaining the duration and the intensity of the rain in five different localities of the city; use and occupation; and water infiltration measures at the soil surface in 10 different areas. The precipitation episodes presented intensities of 24 hours between 8.3 mm and 99.1 mm; intensities in 10 minutes of 10.9 mm, 13.9 mm and 19.6 mm during the night period and dawn; The intensities between 31.6 mm.h-1 and 76.6 mm.h-1 are prominent, mainly in the south, north and east of the city. The measured infiltration capacity varied from 0.012 mm /h to 373.25 mm /h, depending on the use and occupation of the soil. The observed intensities exceed the capacity, increasing the surface runoff of the rainwater due to the high waterproofing index; the low slopes and the long length of the ramps. This fact favored the increase of the velocity of the upstream and downstream surface runoff, potentiating the occurrence of flooding processes.Keywords: Climatology, Precipitation, Flood, Natural Disasters, Social Security.
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Barriendos, M., D. Coeur, M. Lang, et al. "Stationarity analysis of historical flood series in France and Spain (14th–20th centuries)." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 3, no. 6 (2003): 583–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-3-583-2003.
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Abstract. Interdisciplinary frameworks for studying natural hazards and their temporal trends have an important potential in data generation for risk assessment, land use planning, and therefore the sustainable management of resources. This paper focuses on the adjustments required because of the wide variety of scientific fields involved in the reconstruction and characterisation of flood events for the past 1000 years. The aim of this paper is to describe various methodological aspects of the study of flood events in their historical dimension, including the critical evaluation of old documentary and instrumental sources, flood-event classification and hydraulic modelling, and homogeneity and quality control tests. Standardized criteria for flood classification have been defined and applied to the Isère and Drac floods in France, from 1600 to 1950, and to the Ter, the Llobregat and the Segre floods, in Spain, from 1300 to 1980. The analysis on the Drac and Isère data series from 1600 to the present day showed that extraordinary and catastrophic floods were not distributed uniformly in time. However, the largest floods (general catastrophic floods) were homogeneously distributed in time within the period 1600–1900. No major flood occurred during the 20th century in these rivers. From 1300 to the present day, no homogeneous behaviour was observed for extraordinary floods in the Spanish rivers. The largest floods were uniformly distributed in time within the period 1300–1900, for the Segre and Ter rivers.
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Jacinto, R., N. Grosso, E. Reis, L. Dias, F. D. Santos, and P. Garrett. "Continental Portuguese Territory Flood Susceptibility Index – contribution to a vulnerability index." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15, no. 8 (2015): 1907–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1907-2015.
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Abstract. This work defines a national flood susceptibility index for the Portuguese continental territory, by proposing the aggregation of different variables which represent natural conditions for permeability, runoff and accumulation. This index is part of the national vulnerability index developed in the scope of Flood Maps in Climate Change Scenarios (CIRAC) project, supported by the Portuguese Association of Insurers (APS). This approach expands on previous works by trying to bridge the gap between different flood mechanisms (e.g. progressive and flash floods) occurring at different spatial scales in the Portuguese territory through (a) selecting homogeneously processed data sets and (b) aggregating their values to better translate the spatially continuous and cumulative influence in floods at multiple spatial scales. Results show a good ability to capture, in the higher susceptibility classes, different flood types: fluvial floods and flash floods. Lower values are usually related to mountainous areas, low water accumulation potential and more permeable soils. Validation with independent flood data sets confirmed these index characteristics, although some overestimation can be seen in the southern region of Alentejo where, due to a dense hydrographic network and an overall low slope, floods are not as frequent as a result of lower precipitation mean values. Future work will focus on (i) including extreme precipitation data sets to represent the triggering factor, (ii) improving representation of smaller and stepper basins, (iii) optimizing variable weight definition process and (iii) developing more robust independent flood validation data sets.
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Witzany, Jiri, and Tomas Cejka. "RELIABILITY AND FAILURE RESISTANCE OF THE STONE BRIDGE STRUCTURE OF CHARLES BRIDGE DURING FLOODS." JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 13, no. 3 (2007): 227–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/13923730.2007.9636441.
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The most frequent damage and collapse of some of the spans of Charles Bridge during floods occurred namely in its central part which was exposed to an intense flow of backwater and erosion of the bridge pier footing bottom, which the originally relatively shallow foundations of the piers on boxes were not able to resist for a longer time (the floods of 1432, 1496, 1784, 1890). The stone vault bridge structure was damaged due to scouring of the bridge piers foundations, their successive tilting and settlement accompanied by degradation, and finally collapse of the adjoining bridge vaults. The foundation of piers on caissons and execution of caisson rings in 1892 and 1902 to 1904 in this part of the bridge, together with measures avoiding the piling up of objects in front of the bridge, enabled the bridge to withstand the impact of more than a hundred‐year flood during the events of August 2002. The numerical analysis proved an extreme sensitivity of the stone vault bridge structure to the effects of changes in the footing bottom shape. Due to the changes in the footing bottom (angular rotation, subsidence, shifting), normal and shear stresses arise in the stone vault bridge structure, and exceed the load‐bearing capacity of the masonry causing its disintegration. The fundamental measure to prevent the bridge vaults from failure due to the changes in the footing bottom shape is to secure reliably the bridge piers foundations. The increased rigidity of the stone bridge structure achieved by the interaction with the additionally inserted reinforcing structure and by bracing the bridge body filler does not ensure the reliability and safety of the bridge structure from flood‐related failures.
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Li, Zhi, Mengye Chen, Shang Gao, et al. "A multi-source 120-year US flood database with a unified common format and public access." Earth System Science Data 13, no. 8 (2021): 3755–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3755-2021.
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Abstract. Despite several flood databases available in the United States, there is a benefit to combine and reconcile these diverse data sources into a comprehensive flood database with a unified common format and easy public access in order to facilitate flood-related research and applications. Typically, floods are reported by specialists or media according to their socioeconomic impacts. Recently, data-driven analysis can reconstruct flood events based on in situ and/or remote-sensing data. Lately, with the increasing engagement of citizen scientists, there is the potential to enhance flood reporting in near-real time. The central objective of this study is to integrate information from seven popular multi-sourced flood databases into a comprehensive flood database in the United States, made readily available to the public in a common data format. Natural language processing, geocoding, and harmonizing processing steps are undertaken to facilitate such development. In total, there are 698 507 flood records in the United States from 1900 to the present, which highlights the longest and most comprehensive recording of flooding across the country. The database features event locations, durations, date/times, socioeconomic impacts (e.g., fatalities and economic damages), and geographic information (e.g., elevation, slope, contributing area, and land cover types retrieved from ancillary data for given flood locations). Finally, this study utilizes the flood database to analyze flood seasonality within major basins and socioeconomic impacts over time. It is anticipated that thus far the most comprehensive yet unified database can support a variety of flood-related research, such as a validation resource for hydrologic or hydraulic simulations, hydroclimatic studies concerning spatiotemporal patterns of floods, and flood susceptibility analysis for vulnerable geophysical locations. The dataset is publicly available with the following DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4547036 (Li, 2020).
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Jensen, Ric. "Incorporating communication research to develop an environmental history of the Pecos River of Texas." Journal of Science Communication 06, no. 04 (2007): A02. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.06040202.
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Near the turn of the Century, a woman in her 90s from Dodge City, Kansas was riding her horse near the Pecos River and she described it as a sea of saltgrasses...You had to be very close to the river to see it because the grass was so high You could drink the water out of the springs in this area. I used to ride down to the Pecos River on horseback...There was a lot more water in it back then. We grew cantaloupes...and people were amazed at how sweet they were... We stopped because the water [became] was too salty. In 1903, fresh watercress and ferns were growing at Independence Springs [on the Lower Pecos River]...and there were pools of catfish and silver bass. Residents along Independence Creek sold minnows and other bait fish they took from the river. We had a terrible flood in 1941 and 1942 which breached Zimmerman Dam. The river at some places was 10 miles wide. Floodwater covered the valley and the dam was washed out. It seems there is always less water in the Pecos than we need... I think the water quality is worse now-- not that the Pecos River was ever beautiful and clear. When my grandfather got here 110 years ago, they had a lot of water problems then. The prospect of fixing the saltcedar problem and making this area come back the way it was 100 years ago looks bleak for to me...I don't know if we can do that --Quotes from long-time residents of the Pecos River of Texas
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Wilhelm, B., H. Vogel, C. Crouzet, D. Etienne, and F. S. Anselmetti. "Frequency and intensity of palaeofloods at the interface of Atlantic and Mediterranean climate domains." Climate of the Past 12, no. 2 (2016): 299–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-299-2016.
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Abstract. Mediterranean climatic influences was explored by studying a lake sequence (Lake Foréant) of the Western European Alps. High-resolution sedimentological and geochemical analysis revealed 171 event layers, 168 of which result from past flood events over the last millennium. The layer thickness was used as a proxy of intensity of past floods. Because the Foréant palaeoflood record is in agreement with the documented variability of historical floods resulting from local and mesoscale, summer-to-autumn convective events, it is assumed to highlight changes in flood frequency and intensity related to such events typical of both Atlantic (local events) and Mediterranean (mesoscale events) climatic influences. Comparing the Foréant record with other Atlantic-influenced and Mediterranean-influenced regional flood records highlights a common feature in all flood patterns that is a higher flood frequency during the cold period of the Little Ice Age (LIA, AD 1300–1900). In contrast, high-intensity flood events are apparent during both the cold LIA and the warm Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA, AD 950–1250). However, there is a tendency towards higher frequencies of high-intensity flood events during the warm MCA. The MCA extremes could mean that under the global warming scenario, we might see an increase in intensity (not in frequency). However, the flood frequency and intensity in the course of the 20th century warming trend did not change significantly. Uncertainties in future evolution of flood intensity lie in the interpretation of the lack of 20th century extremes (transition or stable?) and the different climate forcing factors between the two periods (greenhouse gases vs. solar and/or volcanic eruptions).
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Dutta, Subashisa, and Shyamal Ghosh. "Impact of Climate and Land Use Changes on the Flood Hazard of the Middle Brahmaputra Reach, India." Journal of Disaster Research 7, no. 5 (2012): 573–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2012.p0573.
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Being the highest specific discharge river in the world, the Brahmaputra has a large floodplain area of 700 km in length in its middle reaches falling in the high flood vulnerability category. Floods generated in upland Himalayan catchments are mainly controlled by land use and land cover, storm characteristics, and vegetation dynamics. Floods propagate through a floodplain region consisting of wetlands, paddy agriculture, and wide braided river reaches with natural constraint points (nodals) that make the reaches more vulnerable to flood hazards. In this study, a macroscale distributed hydrological model was used to obtain the flood characteristics of the reaches. A hydrological model with spatially distributed input parameters and meteorological data was simulated at (1 km × 1 km) spatial grids to estimate flood hydrographs at the main river and itsmajor tributaries. Aftermodel validation, “best guess” land use change scenarios were used to estimate potential changes in flood characteristics. Results show that at the middle reaches of the Brahmaputra, peak discharge increases by a maximum of 9% for land use change scenarios. The same model with bias-corrected climatological data from a regional climate model (RCM) simulation (PRECIS) was used to obtain future changes in flood generation and its propagation through the basin in the projected climatological scenario. Changes in flood characteristics with reference to the baseline period show that the average duration of flood waves will increase from 15.2 days in the baseline period (1961-1990) to 19.3 days in the future (2071-2100). Peak discharge will increase by an average of 21% in the future in the projected climate change scenario. After statistics on changes of flood characteristics in the projected climate change scenario (2071-2100) were obtained, a 2-dimensional hydrodynamic model was used to obtain flood inundation and velocity distribution on the floodplain. Distribution of velocity and inundation depth was spatially analyzed to obtain flood hazard zones in the projected climate change scenario. Results show that spatial variation in flood hazard zones will be significantly altered in the projected climate change scenario compared to land use/land cover changes.
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Nakamura, Jennifer, Upmanu Lall, Yochanan Kushnir, Andrew W. Robertson, and Richard Seager. "Dynamical Structure of Extreme Floods in the U.S. Midwest and the United Kingdom." Journal of Hydrometeorology 14, no. 2 (2013): 485–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-12-059.1.
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Abstract Twenty extreme spring floods that occurred in the Ohio basin between 1901 and 2008, identified from daily river discharge data, are investigated and compared to the April 2011 Ohio River flood event. Composites of synoptic fields for the flood events show that all of these floods are associated with a similar pattern of sustained advection of low-level moisture and warm air from the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The typical flow conditions are governed by an anomalous semistationary ridge, situated east of the U.S. East Coast, that steers the moisture and converges it into the Ohio River valley. Significantly, the moisture path common to all of the 20 cases studied here as well as the case of April 2011 is distinctly different from the normal path of Atlantic moisture during spring, which occurs farther west. It is shown further that the Ohio basin moisture convergence responsible for the floods is caused primarily by the atmospheric circulation anomaly advecting the climatological mean moisture field. Transport and related convergence due to the covariance between moisture anomalies and circulation anomalies are of secondary but nonnegligible importance. The importance of atmospheric circulation anomalies to floods is confirmed by conducting a similar analysis for a series of winter floods on the river Eden in northwest England.
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Sanders, Seth L. "Enoch’s Imaginary Ancestor." Journal of Ancient Judaism 9, no. 2 (2018): 155–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/21967954-00902003.
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This paper examines a foundational tradition of Second Temple scholarship: that the figure of Enoch was inspired by the mythical Babylonian diviner-king Enmeduranki because both revealers were the seventh of ten figures before the flood. It finds that no preserved pre-Christian texts present Enmeduranki this way, and no evidence that anybody in the ancient world believed in this connection. Astonishingly, this theory – dating from 1903, it is literally the first Babylonian-Second Temple connection ever made – has survived repeated disconfirmation and been repeated uncritically for 115 years. Why did nobody critically reexamine the data for over a century? Scholarship on this topic has key features that modern scholars themselves associate with folklore: the handing down of a chain of unchallenged authoritative traditions to create a compelling narrative of the past. It is part of a larger way that the story of Judaism has been told as one of nativization. These studies in continuity provide internalist narratives that present what could be seen as sharp Jewish departures from prior Hebrew traditions as instead part of an inclusive patrimony, a reworking of a shared past. In this view, patterns shared with other cultures recede into matters of “influence” and “background” to Judaism, a creative reuse of an older and sometimes otiose culture to fertilize a new and changing one. In response, the paper concludes by looking to a better documented medium connecting Judean and Babylonian cultures, and a theoretical model that goes beyond borrowing and influence. Rather than an obscure borrowed “tradition,” the heavenly sage was a shared piece of Aramaicbased high culture common to Judean and Mesopotamian scholars. The figure exemplified a type of scribal thought in which the mastery of language meant mastery of a linguistically structured universe.
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Periçato, André Jesus, Valdeir Demétrio da Silva, and Francieli Sant'ana Marcatto. "Identificação e mapeamento das áreas de risco no município de Itajaí- SC a partir das inundações ocorridas em 2011 (Identification and mapping of the flood risk areas in the city of Itajaí-SC based on the 2011 floods)." Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física 9, no. 6 (2016): 1895. http://dx.doi.org/10.26848/rbgf.v9.6.p1895-1909.
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A ocorrência de inundações em áreas urbanas tem se intensificado nos últimos anos, ocasionando diversos danos e prejuízos para a sociedade. O intenso crescimento das cidades nas últimas décadas, assim como a ocupação irregular do espaço urbano com moradias precárias e próximas aos rios, são fatores determinantes para que ocorram essas situações de catástrofes. O objetivo deste trabalho é mapear e identificar as áreas de inundação em setembro de 2011 no município de Itajaí para a confecção do mapa de risco. Para isso foi realizado uma análise histórica do crescimento da malha urbana de Itajaí, correlacionando com as manchas de inundação. Os resultados obtidos revelaram que a inundação ocorrida em 2011 atingiu parte significativa da área do município, com destaque ao perímetro urbano. Os pontos mais críticos de inundação foram às áreas onde houve o crescimento urbano, com destaque as proximidades do rio Itajaí-Mirim. Foi possível analisar por meio do mapa de risco, que grande parte da cidade de Itajaí foi classificada com um alto índice de risco a inundação. Deste modo, pode-se concluir que o mapeamento das áreas de risco configura-se como uma importante ferramenta e instrumento no controle e prevenção à inundação em áreas afetadas por esse fenômeno. A B S T R A C T The occurrence of floods in urban areas has intensified in the recent years, causing many kinds od damage and loss for society. The intense growth of the cities in the past few decades, along with the irregular occupation of urban space with precarious settlements close to the rivers, were determining factors for these catastrophic situations to occur. The objective of this study is mapping and identifying the flooding areas in September 2011 in the city of Itajaí for the confection of a risk map. For this a historical analysis of the growth of the Itajaí urban area was realized, correlating with the flood spots. The obtained results reveal that the 2011 floods affected a significant portion of the city’s area, especially the urban perimeter. The most critical flood spots were in the areas where urban growth took place, especially nearby the Itajaí-Mirim river. By analizing the map, it’s noted that a big part of the city of Itajaí is classified as a high flood risk area. It can be concluded that the mapping of risk areas is an important tool and instrument in the control and prevention of floods in the areas affected by this phenomenon. Keywords: urban flooding, geotechnology, flood risk map.
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Dushenko, Constantine. "“St. Petersburg Flood Legend” and the Myth of the “End of Petersburg”." Philosophy. Journal of the Higher School of Economics V, no. 2 (2021): 34–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2587-8719-2021-2-34-54.
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The article examines the “flood legend” as part of the cultural myth of the “end of St. Petersburg” (ie, in essence, the end of the empire created by Peter I.). The existence of a “folklore flood legend” is postulated by all authors of works on the “Petersburg myth” and “Petersburg text”. It is believed that it is she who lies at the origins of literary works on this subject. In reality, the situation was the other way around: it was not a literary legend that arose from oral tradition, but the idea of “oral tradition” arose under the influence of an already existing literary legend. There is not a single early record of the “flood legend”, and the record published in 1888 by P.P. Karatygin cannot be accepted as historical evidence. The literary “flood legend” began with A. Mickewicz. It was he who created the first eschatological (in the exact sense of the word) image of the death of St. Petersburg from the flood and connected it with the idea of the original curse of the “city on bones”. Then this image was developed by Russian romantic poets, but the decisive role in the codification of the “legend” belonged to D. Merezhkovsky's novels “Peter and Alexis” (1904–1905) and “Alexander I” (1911–1912).
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Bammer, Anton. "A Peripteros of the Geometric Period in the Artemision of Ephesus." Anatolian Studies 40 (December 1990): 137–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3642799.
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It was in 1908 that D. G. Hogarth first published information about a “Central Basis” (Pl. XI (a), Fig. 1) that he had excavated in 1904 and 1905 in the Artemision at Ephesus, and for many decades his words remained the authoritative statement concerning the early sanctuaries not only in Ephesus, but also in the rest of the classical world. A colloquium in the British Museum in 1984, however, demonstrated that there were issues, raised by numismatists and art historians, that continued to be at odds with the results of Hogarth's excavations, and that could only be solved by a further examination of the “central basis” in question.As early as 1986, under the northern outer rim of the crepidoma of the archaic dipteros (Croesus temple), a square base had been discovered which obviously formed the centre of a distinct cult area. A flood stratum of sand, which was typical of all the parts of the Artemision we had excavated, appeared under the base. Fortunately, the low level of the ground water made it possible to measure this stratum (66 cm.) and to observe beneath it a new culture stratum—a pavement made of yellow marly limestone slabs—that had previously escaped detection. This observation gave rise to the hope that more discoveries could be expected under Hogarth's “central basis”.
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Barrera, A., M. C. Llasat, and M. Barriendos. "Estimation of extreme flash flood evolution in Barcelona County from 1351 to 2005." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 6, no. 4 (2006): 505–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-6-505-2006.
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Abstract. Every year, flash floods cause economic losses and major problems for undertaking daily activity in the Catalonia region (NE Spain). Sometimes catastrophic damage and casualties occur. When a long term analysis of floods is undertaken, a question arises regarding the changing role of the vulnerability and the hazard in risk evolution. This paper sets out to give some information to deal with this question, on the basis of analysis of all the floods that have occurred in Barcelona county (Catalonia) since the 14th century, as well as the flooded area, urban evolution, impacts and the weather conditions for any of most severe events. With this objective, the identification and classification of historical floods, and characterisation of flash-floods among these, have been undertaken. Besides this, the main meteorological factors associated with recent flash floods in this city and neighbouring regions are well-known. On the other hand, the identification of rainfall trends that could explain the historical evolution of flood hazard occurrence in this city has been analysed. Finally, identification of the influence of urban development on the vulnerability to floods has been carried out. Barcelona city has been selected thanks to its long continuous data series (daily rainfall data series, since 1854; one of the longest rainfall rate series of Europe, since 1921) and for the accurate historical archive information that is available (since the Roman Empire for the urban evolution). The evolution of flood occurrence shows the existence of oscillations in the earlier and later modern-age periods that can be attributed to climatic variability, evolution of the perception threshold and changes in vulnerability. A great increase of vulnerability can be assumed for the period 1850–1900. The analysis of the time evolution for the Barcelona rainfall series (1854–2000) shows that no trend exists, although, due to changes in urban planning, flash-floods impact has altered over this time. The number of catastrophic flash floods has diminished, although the extraordinary ones have increased.
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Zheng, Jingyun, Yingzhuo Yu, Xuezhen Zhang, and Zhixin Hao. "Variation of extreme drought and flood in North China revealed by document-based seasonal precipitation reconstruction for the past 300 years." Climate of the Past 14, no. 8 (2018): 1135–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1135-2018.
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Abstract. Using a 17-site seasonal precipitation reconstruction from a unique historical archive, Yu-Xue-Fen-Cun, the decadal variations of extreme droughts and floods (i.e., the event with occurrence probability of less than 10 % from 1951 to 2000) in North China were investigated, by considering both the probabilities of droughts/floods occurrence in each site and spatial coverage (i.e., percentage of sites). Then, the possible linkages of extreme droughts and floods with ENSO (i.e., El Niño and La Niña) episodes and large volcanic eruptions were discussed. The results show that there were 29 extreme droughts and 28 extreme floods in North China from 1736 to 2000. For most of these extreme drought (flood) events, precipitation decreased (increased) evidently at most of the sites for the four seasons, especially for summer and autumn. But in drought years of 1902 and 1981, precipitation only decreased in summer slightly, while it decreased evidently in the other three seasons. Similarly, the precipitation anomalies for different seasons at different sites also existed in several extreme flood years, such as 1794, 1823, 1867, 1872 and 1961. Extreme droughts occurred more frequently (2 or more events) during the 1770s–1780s, 1870s, 1900s–1930s and 1980s–1990s, among which the most frequent (3 events) occurred in the 1900s and the 1920s. More frequent extreme floods occurred in the 1770s, 1790s, 1820s, 1880s, 1910s and 1950s–1960s, among which the most frequent (4 events) occurred in the 1790s and 1880s. For the total of extreme droughts and floods, they were more frequent in the 1770s, 1790s, 1870s–1880s, 1900s–1930s and 1960s, and the highest frequency (5 events) occurred in the 1790s. A higher probability of extreme drought was found when El Niño occurred in the current year or the previous year. However, no significant connections were found between the occurrences of extreme floods and ENSO episodes, or the occurrences of extreme droughts/floods and large volcanic eruptions.
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Brázdil, Chromá, Řehoř, et al. "Potential of Documentary Evidence to Study Fatalities of Hydrological and Meteorological Events in the Czech Republic." Water 11, no. 10 (2019): 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11102014.
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This paper presents the potential of documentary evidence for enhancing the study of fatalities taking place in the course of hydrological and meteorological events (HMEs). Chronicles, “books of memory”, weather diaries, newspapers (media), parliamentary proposals, epigraphic evidence, systematic meteorological/hydrological observations, and professional papers provide a broad base for gathering such information in the Czech Republic, especially since 1901. The spatiotemporal variability of 269 fatalities in the Czech Republic arising out of 103 HMEs (flood, flash flood, windstorm, convective storm, lightning, frost, snow/glaze-ice calamity, heat, and other events) in the 1981–2018 period is presented, with particular attention to closer characterisation of fatalities (gender, age, cause of death, place, type of death, and behaviour). Examples of three outstanding events with the highest numbers of fatalities (severe frosts in the extremely cold winter of 1928/1929, a flash flood on 9 June 1970, and a rain flood in July 1997) are described in detail. Discussion of results includes the problem of data uncertainty, factors influencing the numbers of fatalities, and the broader context. Since floods are responsible for the highest proportion of HME-related deaths, places with fatalities are located mainly around rivers and drowning appears as the main cause of death. In the further classification of fatalities, males and adults clearly prevail, while indirect victims and hazardous behaviour are strongly represented.
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Barrera, A., M. Barriendos, and M. C. Llasat. "Extreme flash floods in Barcelona County." Advances in Geosciences 2 (May 2, 2005): 111–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-2-111-2005.
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Abstract. In this paper the catastrophic and extraordinary floods occurring in Barcelona County (Catalonia, NE Spain) are studied, in order to characterise the temporal evolution of extreme flash floods in that area and their main features. These events usually cause economical losses and major problems for undertaking daily activity in Barcelona city. This kind of floods is a very common feature in the North-east of Spain and they are recorded every year in some point of Catalonia. This contribution also shows the frequency of those events, within the framework of all the floods that have occurred in Barcelona since the 14th century, but also describes the flooded area, urban evolution, impacts and the weather conditions for any of most severe events. The evolution of flood occurrence shows the existence of oscillations in the earlier and later modern age periods that can be attributed to climatic variability, evolution of the perception threshold and changes in vulnerability. A great increase of vulnerability can be assumed for the period 1850-1900. The analysis of the time evolution for the Barcelona rainfall series (1854-2000) shows that no trend exists, although, due to the changes in urban planning, flash-floods impact has changed over this time. The number of catastrophic flash floods has diminished, although the extraordinary ones have increased.
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Llasat, M. C., M. Llasat-Botija, M. Barnolas, L. López, and V. Altava-Ortiz. "An analysis of the evolution of hydrometeorological extremes in newspapers: the case of Catalonia, 1982–2006." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 9, no. 4 (2009): 1201–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-9-1201-2009.
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Abstract. This contribution analyzes the evolution of perception of certain natural hazards over the past 25 years in a Mediterranean region. Articles from newspapers have been used as indicator. To this end a specific Spanish journal has been considered and an ACCESS database has been created with the summarized information from each news item. The database includes data such as the location of each specific article in the newspaper, its length, the number of pictures and figures, the headlines and a summary of the published information, including all the instrumental data. The study focused on hydrometeorological extremes, mainly floods and droughts, in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. The number of headlines per event, trends and other data have been analyzed and compared with "measured" information, in order to identify any bias that could lead to an erroneous perception of the phenomenon. The SPI index (a drought index based on standardized accumulated precipitation) has been calculated for the entire region, and has been used for the drought analysis, while a geodatabase implemented on a GIS built for all the floods recorded in Catalonia since 1900 (INUNGAMA) has been used to analyze flood evolution. Results from a questionnaire about the impact of natural hazards in two specific places have been also used to discuss the various perceptions between rural and urban settings. Results show a better correlation between the news about drought or water scarcity and SPI than between news on floods in Catalonia and the INUNGAMA database. A positive trend has been found for non-catastrophic floods, which is explained by decrease of the perception thresholds, the increase of population density in the most flood-prone areas and changes in land use.
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Guzzetti, F., and G. Tonelli. "Information system on hydrological and geomorphological catastrophes in Italy (SICI): a tool for managing landslide and flood hazards." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 4, no. 2 (2004): 213–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-4-213-2004.
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Abstract. Since 1990, we have maintained a database of historical information on landslides and floods in Italy, known as the National Research Council's AVI (Damaged Urban Areas) archive. The database was originally designed to respond to a request of the Minister of Civil Protection, and was aimed at helping the regional assessment of landslide and flood risk in Italy. The database was compiled in 1991-1992 to cover the period 1917 to 1990, and then updated to cover systematically the period 1917 to 2000, and non-systematically the periods 1900 to 1916 and 2001 to 2002. The database currently contains information on more than 32000 landslide events occurred at more than 21000 sites, and on more than 29000 flood events occurred at more than 14000 sites. Independently from the AVI archive, we have obtained other databases containing information on damage caused by mass movements and inundations, daily discharge measurements and solid-transport measurements at selected gauging stations, bibliographical and reference information on landslides and inundations, and a catalogue of National legislation on hydrological and geological hazards and risk in Italy. The databases are part of an information system known as SICI (an Italian acronym for Sistema Informativo sulle Catastrofi Idrogeologiche, Information System on Hydrological and Geomorphological Catastrophes), which is currently the largest single repository of historical information on landslides and floods in Italy. After an outline of the history and evolution of the AVI Project archive, we present and discuss: (a) the structure of the SICI information system, including the hardware and software solutions adopted to maintain, manage, update, use and disseminate the information stored in the various databases, (b) the type and amount of information stored in each database, including an estimate of their completeness, and (c) examples of recent applications of the information system, including a web-based GIS system to show the location of sites historically affected by landslides and floods, and an estimate of geo-hydrological (i.e. landslide and flood) risk in Italy based on the available historical information.
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Pereira, S., A. M. Ramos, J. L. Zêzere, R. M. Trigo, and J. M. Vaquero. "Spatial impact and triggering conditions of the exceptional hydro-geomorphological event of December 1909 in Iberia." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 3, no. 9 (2015): 5805–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhessd-3-5805-2015.
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Abstract. According to the DISASTER database the 20–28 December 1909 was the hydro-geomorphologic event with the highest number of flood and landslide cases occurred in Portugal in the period 1865–2010 (Zêzere et al., 2014). This event also caused important social impacts over the Spanish territory, especially in the Douro basin, having triggered the highest floods in more than 100 years at the river's mouth in the city of Oporto. This work aims to characterize the spatial distribution and social impacts of the December 1909 hydro-geomorphologic event over Iberia. In addition, the meteorological conditions that triggered the event are analysed using the 20 Century Reanalysis dataset from NOAA and precipitation data from Iberian meteorological stations. The Iberian Peninsula was spatially affected during this event along the SW-NE direction spanning from Lisbon, Santarém, Oporto and Guarda (in Portugal), until Salamanca, Valladolid, Zamora, Orense, León and Palencia (in Spain). In Iberia, 134 DISASTER cases were recorded (130 flood cases; 4 landslides cases) having caused a total of 89 casualties (57 in floods and 32 in landslides) and a total of 3876 people were affected, including fatalities, injured, missing, evacuated and homeless people. This event was associated with some outstanding precipitation values at Guarda station (Portugal) in 22 December 1909 and unusual meteorological conditions characterized by the presence of a deep low pressure system located over NW Iberian Peninsula with a stationary frontal system striking the Western Iberian Peninsula. The presence of an upper-level jet (250 hPa) and low-level jet (900 hPa) located on SW-NE oriented towards the Iberia along with upper-level divergence and lower-level convergence favoured large-scale precipitation. Finally, associated with these features it is possible to state that this extreme event was clearly associated to the presence of an elongated Atmospheric River, crossing the entire northern Atlantic basin and providing a continuous supply of moisture that contributed to enhance precipitation. This work contributes to a comprehensive and systematic synoptic evaluation of the second most deadly hydro-geomorphologic Disaster event occurred in Portugal since 1865 and will help to better understand the meteorological system that was responsible for triggering the event.
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Lam, Holly Ching Yu, Andy Haines, Glenn McGregor, Emily Ying Yang Chan, and Shakoor Hajat. "Time-Series Study of Associations between Rates of People Affected by Disasters and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 17 (2019): 3146. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16173146.
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The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major driver of climatic variability that can have far reaching consequences for public health globally. We explored whether global, regional and country-level rates of people affected by natural disasters (PAD) are linked to ENSO. Annual numbers of PAD between 1964–2017 recorded on the EM-DAT disaster database were combined with UN population data to create PAD rates. Time-series regression was used to assess de-trended associations between PAD and 2 ENSO indices: Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) and multivariate El Niño Index (MEI). Over 95% of PAD were caused by floods, droughts or storms, with over 75% of people affected by these three disasters residing in Asia. Globally, drought-related PAD rate increased sharply in El Niño years (versus neutral years). Flood events were the disaster type most strongly associated with El Niño regionally: in South Asia, flood-related PAD increased by 40.5% (95% CI 19.3% to 65.6%) for each boundary point increase in ONI (p = 0.002). India was found to be the country with the largest increase in flood-related PAD rates following an El Niño event, with the Philippines experiencing the largest increase following La Niña. Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)-analyses showed consistent results. These findings can be used to inform disaster preparedness strategies.
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Wang, L. C., H. Behling, T. Q. Lee, et al. "Late Holocene environmental reconstructions and their implications on flood events, typhoon, and agricultural activities in NE Taiwan." Climate of the Past 10, no. 5 (2014): 1857–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-1857-2014.
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Abstract. We reconstructed paleoenvironmental changes from a sediment archive of a lake in the floodplain of the Ilan Plain of NE Taiwan on multi-decadal resolution for the last ca. 1900 years. On the basis of pollen and diatom records, we evaluated past floods, typhoons, and agricultural activities in this area which are sensitive to the hydrological conditions in the western Pacific. Considering the high sedimentation rates with low microfossil preservations in our sedimentary record, multiple flood events were. identified during the period AD 100–1400. During the Little Ice Age phase 1 (LIA 1 – AD 1400–1620), the abundant occurrences of wetland plant (Cyperaceae) and diatom frustules imply less flood events under stable climate conditions in this period. Between AD 500 and 700 and the Little Ice Age phase 2 (LIA 2 – AD 1630–1850), the frequent typhoons were inferred by coarse sediments and planktonic diatoms, which represented more dynamical climate conditions than in the LIA 1. By comparing our results with the reconstructed changes in tropical hydrological conditions, we suggested that the local hydrology in NE Taiwan is strongly influenced by typhoon-triggered heavy rainfalls, which could be influenced by the variation of global temperature, the expansion of the Pacific warm pool, and the intensification of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events.
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Pereira, S., A. M. Ramos, J. L. Zêzere, R. M. Trigo, and J. M. Vaquero. "Spatial impact and triggering conditions of the exceptional hydro-geomorphological event of December 1909 in Iberia." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 16, no. 2 (2016): 371–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-371-2016.
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Abstract. According to the DISASTER database the 20–28 December 1909 event was the hydro-geomorphologic event with the highest number of flood and landslide cases that occurred in Portugal in the period 1865–2010 (Zêzere et al., 2014). This event also caused important social impacts over the Spanish territory, especially in the Douro Basin, having triggered the highest floods in more than 100 years at the river's mouth in the city of Oporto. This work has a dual purpose: (i) to characterize the spatial distribution and social impacts of the December 1909 hydro-geomorphologic DISASTER event over Portugal and Spain; (ii) to analyse the meteorological conditions that triggered the event and the spatial distribution of the precipitation anomalies. Social impacts that occurred in Portugal were obtained from the Disaster database (Zêzere et al., 2014) whereas the data collection for Spain was supported by the systematic analysis of Spanish daily newspapers. In addition, the meteorological conditions that triggered the event are analysed using the 20th Century Reanalysis data set from NOAA and precipitation data from Iberian meteorological stations. The Iberian Peninsula was spatially affected during this event along the SW-NE direction spanning from Lisbon, Santarém, Oporto, and Guarda (in Portugal), to Salamanca, Valladolid, Zamora, Orense, León, and Palencia (in Spain). In Iberia, 134 DISASTER cases were recorded (130 flood cases; 4 landslides cases) having caused 89 casualties (57 due to floods and 32 due to landslides) and a further total of 3876 affected people, including fatalities, injured, missing, evacuated, and homeless people. This event was associated with outstanding precipitation registered at Guarda (Portugal) on 22 December 1909 and unusual meteorological conditions characterized by the presence of a deep low-pressure system located over the NW Iberian Peninsula with a stationary frontal system striking the western Iberian Peninsula. The presence of an upper-level jet (250 hPa) and low-level jet (900 hPa) located SW–NE oriented towards Iberia along with upper-level divergence and lower-level convergence favoured large-scale precipitation. Finally, associated with these features it is possible to state that this extreme event was clearly associated with the presence of an elongated Atmospheric River, crossing the entire northern Atlantic Basin and providing a continuous supply of moisture that contributed to enhance precipitation. This work contributes to a comprehensive and systematic synoptic evaluation of the second most deadly hydro-geomorphologic DISASTER event that has occurred in Portugal since 1865 and will help to better understand the meteorological system that was responsible for triggering the event.
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Webb, R. E. "Floyd F. Smith 1900-1984." Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America 31, no. 1 (1985): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/besa/31.1.58.
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Jamir, Tongdi, and G. Krishna Kumar. "Assessment of climatic extremes over Northeast and West Coast regions of India." Geoadria 20, no. 1 (2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/geoadria.13.
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Extreme weather and climate variability have become a subject of big concern worldwide. In response, efforts have been made to evaluate the trends in climatic parameters in two geographical regions of India – Northeast (NER) and West coast region (WCR) for the period 1901-2009. This paper studies trends in cyclones and depressions, floods and droughts, thunderstorms, hailstorms, the number of fog and poor visibility days in the research areas. A detailed analysis indicates a mixed trend for cyclones and depressions, flood and drought events. Moderate and severe cold waves also show a significant decreasing trend. The same behaviour is observed in the frequency of heat waves too. There is a significant increase in thunderstorm and hailstorm frequency. During the winter season, fog and poor visibility days show a positive correlation in Imphal, Kailashahar and Agartala. It can be concluded that in the midst of global warming and climate change, the climate response is mixed for both regions.
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Wang, L. C., H. Behling, T. Q. Lee, et al. "Late Holocene environmental reconstructions and the implications on flood events, typhoon patterns, and agriculture activities in NE Taiwan." Climate of the Past Discussions 10, no. 3 (2014): 1977–2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-10-1977-2014.
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Abstract. In this study, we reconstructed the paleoenvironmental changes from a sediment archive of the floodplain lake in Ilan Plain of NE Taiwan on multi-decadal resolution for the last ca. 1900 years. On the basis of pollen and diatom records, we evaluated the record of past vegetation, floods, typhoons and agriculture activities of this area, which is sensitive to the hydrological conditions of the West Pacific. High sedimentation rates with low microfossil preservations reflected multiple flood events and humid climatic conditions during 100–1400 AD. A shortly interrupted dry phase can be found during 940–1010 AD. The driest phase corresponds to the Little Ice Age phase 1 (LIA1, 1400–1620 AD) with less disturbance by flood events, which enhanced the occurrence of wetlands (Cyperaceae) and diatom depositions. Humid phases with frequent typhoons are inferred by high percentages of Lagerstroemia and high ratios of planktonic/benthic diatoms, respectively, during 500–700 AD and Little Ice Age phase 2 (LIA2, 1630–1850 AD). The occurrences of cultivated Poaceae (Oryza) during 1250–1300 AD and the last ~400 years, reflect agriculture activities, which seems to implicate strongly with the environmental stability. Finally, we found flood events which dominated during the El Niño-like stage, but dry events as well as frequent typhoon events happened during the La Niña-like stage. After comparing our results with the reconstructed proxy for tropical hydrological conditions, we suggested that the local hydrology in coastal East Asia were strongly affected by the typhoon-triggered heavy rainfalls which were influenced by the variation of global temperature, expansion of the Pacific warm pool and intensification of ENSO events.
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Sevostyanova, Elena. "Mobilization in everyday life of the population of Trans-Baikal Region during the period of “Chinese complications” (1900-1901)." Социодинамика, no. 4 (April 2021): 22–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2021.4.32551.
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The object of this research is the everyday life of Trans-Baikal Region during the military-political conflict. The official name of the conflict was “Military Campaign in China 1900-1901”, but in common practice it was called “Chinese complications” and “danger on the borders”. The subject of this research is mobilization in everyday life of the population of Trans-Baikal Region during the period of “Chinese complications” (1900-1901). The author examines the impact of mobilization upon life of the population, which behavioral strategies and psychological reactions were prevalent, assessments of the population regarding the causes of the conflict and its consequences for Trans-Baikal region, what and what language was used to describe it. In the analysis of newspaper materials, the article employed the methods of determining semantic-lexical elements; considered the methodological ideas of studying everyday life as a correlation between power strategies and tactics of everyday life. It was established that the population identified mobilization with uncontrolled natural disasters and catastrophic events, such as crop setback, floods, and large-scale epizootics. Mobilization alongside the Russia-China conflict overall, did not entail a surge of anti-Chinese sentiments, although incited xenophobia. The author explores the main issues of everyday life determined by mobilization and measures taken by the regional authorities aimed at ensuring security of the border areas and preventing famine. Analysis is conducted on the ideological and informational role of the church. The Trans-Baikal Church led the charity work, and all priests were authorized to accept donations.
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Prins, Brandon C., and Bryan W. Marshall. "Senate Influence or Presidential Unilateralism?" Conflict Management and Peace Science 26, no. 2 (2009): 191–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0738894208101129.
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Treaty-making involves the constitutional struggle for policy control. Both the Executive and Senate are defined as official actors in establishing international commitments and both closely guard their constitutionally defined roles.Yet most research concludes that Congress rarely matters when defining US commitments abroad.We explore the Senate's role in treaty-making during the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt (1901—1909) and the first term of George W. Bush (2001— 2005). Our evidence confirms that even recent studies showing greater Senate influence on treaty-making significantly underestimate the upper chamber's role in defining US commitments abroad. Rather than killing treaties with a formal floor vote, the Senate exerts influence at the committee stage by refusing to act on controversial agreements negotiated by presidential administrations. President Bush has responded to such congressional oversight by establishing more international commitments through executive agreements rather than treaties, particularly when it comes to issues of security.
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HIRABAYASHI, KIMIO, GORO KIMURA, and EISO INOUE. "Adult caddisflies (Trichoptera) attracted to artificial lights in the middle reaches of the Shinano River from 2005 to 2007." Zoosymposia 5, no. 1 (2011): 143–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.5.1.12.
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The species composition and abundance of adult caddisflies attracted to the illuminated showcase of a vending machine set along the middle reaches of the Shinano River were investigated every Sunday night from April to November in 2005 to 2007. A total of 1,405 adult caddisflies was collected during the investigation periods. We identified a total of 13 species belonging to 11 genera of 8 families. The most abundant species was Psychomyia acutipennis (Ulmer 1908) each year. Psychomyia acutipennis adults were collected from mid-May to the beginning of October (the range of mean air temperature was 13.8 to 27.7°C), with its seasonal abundance divided into several peaks, i.e., the end of May, the beginning of June, and the end of August to the beginning of September in both 2006 and 2007. On the other hand, in 2005 when there was no large-scale summer flood and there were no marked abundance peaks. The present study suggests that the mean air temperature and summer floods impacted the seasonal abundance of P. acutipennis adults.
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Williams, Kyle. "Roosevelt's Populism: The Kansas Oil War of 1905 and the Making of Corporate Capitalism." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, no. 1 (2019): 96–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781419000446.
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AbstractThe map of the American petroleum industry shifted rapidly from the Northeast to the Southwest at the turn of the twentieth century when spectacular gushers were struck first in Texas and soon in California, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The flood of small and mid-size oil producers broke the hold that the Standard Oil Company had for decades held on the industry. Competition defeated monopoly. Or so the conventional story goes. This article offers a more complicated narrative by focusing on conflicts between Standard Oil and independent producers in the booming towns of southeast Kansas in 1904 and 1905. In those years, John D. Rockefeller's firm established a monopoly through technologies of distribution and distillation and the production of scientific knowledge and opaque classifications of commodities. Oil producers revolted. A reform movement turned to the rhetoric and policy ideas of Populism as it sought to use state power to challenge the stranglehold of the “octopus.” This article explores the previously unrecognized significance of this movement by showing how the Kansas oil war contributed to the breakup of Standard Oil by the Supreme Court in 1911 and constituted one of the bottom-up sources for the reconstruction of American capitalism.
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Mulder, E., and L. R. Smales. "Parasites of Rattus colletti (Rodentia:Muridae) from the Adelaide River floodplain, Northern Territory, and comparison with assemblages in other Rattus species." Australian Journal of Zoology 57, no. 6 (2009): 377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo09072.
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This study documents the parasite assemblage of Rattus colletti (Thomas, 1904) from the Adelaide River flood plain, Northern Territory, Australia. In total, six species of helminth (comprising two cestodes, one trematode and three nematodes), and four species of arthropod (comprising one tick, one mite, one flea (identified to family level) and one louse (identified to generic level)) were found. In spite of the hosts being present in high numbers the helminth assemblage was depauperate, characterised by low prevalence and abundance, both being higher in wet seasons. More helminths were found in larger animals. The most prevalent helminth was from the Trichostrongylina, Nippostrongylus typicus (Mawson, 1961). The assemblage was characterised as having two heirloom species (N. typicus and Hymenolepis diminuta (Rudolphi, 1819)), a host capture (Raillietina celebensis (Janicki, 1902) and a cosmopolitan species (Mastophorus muris (Gmelin, 1790)) as well as occasional infections. When compared with the helminths from a single population of Rattus sordidus (Gould, 1858) a similar number of species were found, three species being in common, and both were depauperate when compared with the more extensively surveyed faunas of Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) and Rattus leucopus (Gray, 1858).
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Trinh, T., C. Ho, N. Do, A. Ercan, and M. L. Kavvas. "Development of high-resolution 72 h precipitation and hillslope flood maps over a tropical transboundary region by physically based numerical atmospheric–hydrologic modeling." Journal of Water and Climate Change 11, S1 (2020): 387–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2020.062.
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Abstract Long-term, high spatial and temporal resolution atmospheric and hydrologic data are crucial for water resource management. However, reliable high-quality precipitation and hydrologic data are not available in various regions around the world. This is, in particular, the case in transboundary regions, which have no formal data sharing agreement among countries. This study introduces an approach to construct long-term high-resolution extreme 72 h precipitation and hillslope flood maps over a tropical transboundary region by the coupled physical hydroclimate WEHY-WRF model. For the case study, Da and Thao River watersheds (D-TRW), within Vietnam and China, were selected. The WEHY-WRF model was set up over the target region based on ERA-20C reanalysis data and was calibrated based on existing ground observation data. After successfully configuring, WEHY-WRF is able to produce hourly atmospheric and hydrologic conditions at fine resolution over the target watersheds during 1900–2010. From the modeled 72 h precipitation and flood events, it can be seen that the main precipitation mechanism of DRW and TRW are both the summer monsoon and tropical cyclone. In addition, it can be concluded that heavy precipitation may not be the only reason to create an extreme flood event. The effects of topography, soil, and land use/cover also need to be considered in such nonlinear atmospheric and hydrologic processes. Last but not least, the long-term high-resolution extreme 72 h precipitation and hillslope flood maps over a tropical transboundary region, D-TRW, were constructed based on 111 largest annual historical events during 1900–2010.
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Naylor, D. J. "Heavy rain and floods in Glamorgan, September 1909." Weather 52, no. 4 (1997): 107–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1997.tb06285.x.
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Allan, Sarah. "The Jishi Outburst Flood of 1920 bce and the Great Flood Legend in Ancient China: Preliminary Reflections." Journal of Chinese Humanities 3, no. 1 (2017): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23521341-12340041.
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On August 5, 2015, Science published an article by Wu Qinglong and a team of distinguished archaeologists that reported on the discovery of evidence for a massive outburst flood in the upper reaches of the Yellow River c. 1920 bce. The archaeologists identified this flood with the one brought under control by Yu 禹, who was traditionally regarded as the founder of the Xia dynasty. They further argue that since Erlitou culture originated around 1900 bce, the coincidence of date serves to confirm the identification of Xia and Erlitou culture. This article argues against the historical interpretation of this evidence for an ancient flood. In the early texts, Yu did not control a flood along the Yellow River; he dug all the riverbeds throughout the world so that the waters could flow into the sea. Moreover, the story of Yu controlling the waters and the foundation of the Xia dynasty were not linked in the earliest accounts. This story originated as part of a cosmogonic myth in which the world was made habitable and conducive to agriculture. Thus, it cannot be identified with any particular flood or used to date the foundation of the Xia. Finally, it argues that a great flood was more likely to have caused social disruption than the development of a new level of state power. However, this flood may have caused people from the Qijia culture, which was centered in the region of the flood and already had primitive bronze-casting technology, to flee to other regions including that dominated by Erlitou culture. This cultural interaction introduced metallurgy which was further developed in the context of Erlitou culture, thus spurring its development as a state-level society.
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Ferraris, L., O. Reale, and B. Turato. "Synoptic and hydrological analysis of a flood event." Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere 26, no. 9 (2001): 655–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1464-1909(01)00065-x.
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Cheng, Q., L. Li, and L. Wang. "Characterization of peak flow events with local singularity method." Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 16, no. 4 (2009): 503–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/npg-16-503-2009.
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Abstract. Three methods, return period, power-law frequency plot (concentration-area) and local singularity index, are introduced in the paper for characterizing peak flow events from river flow data for the past 100 years from 1900 to 2000 recorded at 25 selected gauging stations on rivers in the Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM) area, Canada. First a traditional method, return period, was applied to the maximum annual river flow data. Whereas the Pearson III distribution generally fits the values, a power-law frequency plot (C-A) on the basis of self-similarity principle provides an effective mean for distinguishing "extremely" large flow events from the regular flow events. While the latter show a power-law distribution, about 10 large flow events manifest departure from the power-law distribution and these flow events can be classified into a separate group most of which are related to flood events. It is shown that the relation between the average water releases over a time period after flow peak and the time duration may follow a power-law distribution. The exponent of the power-law or singularity index estimated from this power-law relation may be used to characterize non-linearity of peak flow recessions. Viewing large peak flow events or floods as singular processes can anticipate the application of power-law models not only for characterizing the frequency distribution of peak flow events, for example, power-law relation between the number and size of floods, but also for describing local singularity of processes such as power-law relation between the amount of water released versus releasing time. With the introduction and validation of singularity of peak flow events, alternative power-law models can be used to depict the recession property as well as other types of non-linear properties.
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Trevino, Roberto R., and James Talmadge Moore. "Through Fire and Flood: The Catholic Church in Frontier Texas, 1836-1900." Journal of American History 80, no. 2 (1993): 672. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2079930.
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Blauvelt, Martha Tomhave, and James Talmadge Moore. "Through Fire and Flood: The Catholic Church in Frontier Texas, 1836-1900." Western Historical Quarterly 24, no. 1 (1993): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/970015.
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Miller, Randall M., and James Talmadge Moore. "Through Fire and Flood: The Catholic Church in Frontier Texas, 1836-1900." American Historical Review 98, no. 4 (1993): 1324. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2166782.
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Clark, Colin. "The storm and flood of 13 May 1906 at Mells, Somerset, UK." Weather 73, no. 4 (2018): 109–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wea.3230.
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Woods, James M., and James Talmadge Moore. "Through Fire and Flood: The Catholic Church in Frontier Texas, 1836-1900." Journal of Southern History 59, no. 3 (1993): 546. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2210032.
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Kalach, A. V., E. Z. Arifullin, V. V. Nicheporchuk, E. V. Kalach, and A. V. Oblienko. "Support technologies for management of the land flood protection." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1902, no. 1 (2021): 012072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1902/1/012072.
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Coogan, John W., and Peter F. Coogan. "The British Cabinet and the Anglo-French Staff Talks, 1905–1914: Who Knew What and When Did He Know It?" Journal of British Studies 24, no. 1 (1985): 110–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/385827.
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The role of the British cabinet in the Anglo-French military conversations prior to the First World War has been and remains controversial. The acrimonious debate within the government during November 1911 seems linked inextricably to the flood of angry memoirs that followed August 1914 and to the continuing historical debate over the actions and motivations of the various ministers involved. Two generations of researchers now have examined an enormous body of evidence, yet the leading modern scholars continue to publish accounts that differ on the most basic questions. Historians have proved no more able than the ministers themselves were to reconcile the contradictory statements of honorable men. The persistence of these differences in historical literature demonstrates both the continuing confusion over the cabinet's role in the military conversations and the need for a renewed effort to resolve this confusion.The starting point for any discussion of the staff talks must be the recognition that the meaning of the term changed significantly over the nine years before the outbreak of World War I. The contacts began with a series of informal discussions between senior British and French officers during 1905. The first systematic conversations took place early in January 1906 under the authority of Lord Esher, a permanent member of the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID), and Sir George Clarke, the CID secretary. Later in that month a small group of ministers, including Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, sanctioned formal, ongoing exchanges between the two general staffs.
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Strnad, Filip, Vojtěch Moravec, Yannis Markonis, et al. "An Index-Flood Statistical Model for Hydrological Drought Assessment." Water 12, no. 4 (2020): 1213. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12041213.
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Modelling of hydrological extremes and drought modelling in particular has received much attention over recent decades. The main aim of this study is to apply a statistical model for drought estimation (in this case deficit volume) using extreme value theory and the index-flood method and to reduce the uncertainties in estimation of drought event return levels. Deficit volumes for 133 catchments in the Czech Republic (1901–2015) were simulated by hydrological model BILAN. The validation of severity, intensity and length of simulated drought events revealed good match with the available observed data. To estimate return levels of the deficit volumes, it is assumed (in accord with the index-flood method), that the deficit volumes within a homogeneous region are identically distributed after scaling with a site-specific factor. The parameters of the scaled regional distribution are estimated using L-moments. The goodness-of-fit of the statistical model is assessed by Anderson–Darling test. For the estimation of critical values, sampling methods allowing for handling of years without drought were used. It is shown, that the index-flood model with a Generalized Pareto distribution performs well and substantially reduces the uncertainty related to the estimation of the shape parameter and of the large deficit volume quantiles.
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Selvaraj, Shalini, and Shanti Chandran Sandaran. "Discourses of Flood Disaster Preparedness by NGOs: Humanitarian Aid, Teamwork and Victimization." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 19, no. 4 (2019): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2019-1904-06.
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Cohen, Benjamin. "Modernising the Urban Environment: The Musi River Flood of 1908 in Hyderabad, India." Environment and History 17, no. 3 (2011): 409–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734011x13077054787181.
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Taksa, Lucy, and Carolyn Polizzotto. "The Factory Floor. A Visual and Oral Record 1900-1960." Labour History, no. 55 (1988): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27508912.
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Urago, Masataka, Mitsutoshi Ikeda, Munehiro Kayo, and Yoshiaki Ohkami. "1905 Contact analyses between a human body and a floor." Proceedings of The Computational Mechanics Conference 2009.22 (2009): 587–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1299/jsmecmd.2009.22.587.
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