Hydrological Extremes:
Understanding, Predicting, Mitigating

Edited by L. Gottschalk, J.-C. Olivry, D. Reed & D. Rosbjerg

Publ. no. 255, (1999) ISBN 1-901502-85-6, 314 + x pages, price £46.50

The UK Environment Agency provided financial sponsorship for this publication

This new publication comprises 39 papers, the edited proceedings of Symposium HS1 on Hydrological Extremes: Understanding, Predicting, Mitigating, held during IUGG 99, the XXII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, at Birmingham, UK, in July 1999. Extreme hydrological events—floods and droughts—cause significant losses all over the world. To reduce these losses and improve on present preparedness, a need for more holistic approaches has become evident. Issues of particular importance are: to improve understanding of hydrological and atmospheric processes that lead to hydrological extremes; to predict their occurrence and severity; to solve management issues related to preparedness and mitigation; and to estimate hydrological extremes in a changing environment. The papers in this volume offer a broad perspective on these issues and represent a variety of natural conditions from arid and humid tropics to tundra and glacial environments. They are grouped in the following themes:


 

Contents


     
  1. Understanding—circulation patterns
     
     
  2. Understanding—nonstationarity
     
     
  3. Prediction—drought
     
     
  4. Prediction—floods
     
     
  5. Mitigation