Storms, Floods, and Debris Flows in Southern California and Arizona 1978 and 1980: Proceedings of a Symposium, September 17-18, 1980

摘要

The Committee on Natural Disasters of the National Research Council and the Environmental Quality Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology jointly sponsored a symposium for discussion of the flooding events in Southern California and Arizona in the wet winter periods of 1978 and 1979. Conclusions and recommendations relative to future research and flood hazard mitigation are included in papers presented in the following major sections of the proceedings: Overview and Summary, Storm Meteorology, Downstream River Flooding, Upland Floods and Sediment Transport, Landslides, Case Studies of Engineering Problems, Effects on Shoreline, and Policies for Flood Control and Hazard Mitigation.