Cataclysmic Scabland flooding: Insights from a simple depth-averaged numerical model.

• Published in: Environmental Modelling & Software
• Main Authors: H. MIYAMOTO, KOMATSU, Goro, V. R. BAKER, J. M. DOHM, K. ITOH, H. TOSAKA
• Other Authors: H., Miyamoto, Komatsu, Goro, V. R., Baker, J. M., Dohm, K., Itoh, H., Tosaka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Cataclysmic flood; Channeled Scabland; Glacial Lake Missoula; Numerical simulation; Depth-averaged; Glacial Lake; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11564/218414; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.07.006; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364815206002003?via=ihub

This work presents numerical assessments of possible routing paths for the reported late Pleistocene Missoula floods, which involved Earth’s largest known peak discharges of freshwater. For our numerical model, we adopt the diffusion wave approximation of the shallow-water equation with the empirica...