Climatic control of Mississippi River flood hazard amplified by river engineering

Samuel E. Munoz (), Liviu Giosan, Matthew D. Therrell, Jonathan W. F. Remo, Zhixiong Shen, Richard M. Sullivan, Charlotte Wiman, Michelle O’Donnell and Jeffrey P. Donnelly
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Samuel E. Munoz: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Liviu Giosan: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Matthew D. Therrell: University of Alabama
Jonathan W. F. Remo: Southern Illinois University
Zhixiong Shen: Coastal Carolina University
Richard M. Sullivan: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Charlotte Wiman: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Michelle O’Donnell: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jeffrey P. Donnelly: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Nature, 2018, vol. 556, issue 7699, 95-98

Abstract: A suite of river discharge, tree-ring, sedimentary and climate data shows that the Mississippi’s flood magnitude has risen by about twenty per cent over the past half-century, largely owing to engineering works.

Date: 2018
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