CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND FLOOD FREQUENCY ESTIMATION FOR THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI AND LOWER MISSOURI RIVERS 1

• Published in: JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
• Main Authors: Olsen, J. Rolf, Stedinger, Jery R., Matalas, Nicholas C., Stakhiv, Eugene Z.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1999
• Subjects: Pacific; St. Louis; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb04234.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1752-1688.1999.tb04234.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb04234.x

ABSTRACT: This paper considers the distribution of flood flows in the Upper Mississippi, Lower Missouri, and Illinois Rivers and their relationship to climatic indices. Global climate patterns including El Niño/Southern Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and the North Atlantic Oscillation...