The West without water : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow

The West without water : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow / B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam ; foreword by Sandra L. Postel.

Author/creator	Ingram, B. Lynn, 1961-
Other author/creator	Malamud-Roam, Frances, 1961-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Description	xx, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Climatic changes--West (U.S.) --Forecasting. Climatic changes--Environmental aspects --West (U.S.) Hydrology--West (U.S.)

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2013003306
ISBN	9780520268555 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0520268555 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	QC903.2 .U6 I54 2013	✔ Available	Place Hold