Additional Reading:

Flood Control http://www.uwin.siu.edu/ucowr/hydro/h09.html

WEB LINKS

FEMA Backgrounder on Floods and Flash Floods

Real Time ALERT DATA (precipitation info and WARNINGS)

http://nimbo.wrh.noaa.gov/Sandiego/local.html#Precip

1996-1997 California Floods http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/www/Flood.html

Flooding on the Yellow River, China, Nile River, Egypt and Mississippi River http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flood/deluge.html

What’s good about floods? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flood/gifts.html

Flood Risk
United States map, divided by counties, indicating 5 categories of forecasted flood danger over the next 24 hours. Individual state maps are also available.

Flood Threat
United States map, divided by counties, indicating how much rain is required over any 3-hour period within the next 24 hours to cause flooding.

Flood info from USGS www.usgs.gov/themes/flood.html

Meteorology and floods in southwestern US http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/floods/

Rivers From Space http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/geomorphology/GEO_4/GEO_CHAPTER_4_TABLE.HTML

Transcript of NOVA Flood Movie http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2307tfloo.html