Sentence examples for flood wave from inspiring English sources

All the water was gone in three days, in a giant flood wave".

By the time the flood wave rolled past Baghdad and exhausted itself, as many as one and a half million people could be dead.

"Two glaciers could collapse into the lake, that would cause a big flood wave which would destroy the house of my family and many other houses in Huaraz.

Two, if the water goes, it would be caught by the Tarbela dam downstream – and the reservoir there is low because of the drought in Pakistan – but as many as 45,000 people are in danger of a flood wave.

The seasonal headwater flood wave travels at 0.09 metre per second, taking some four months over 2,011 kilometres, but earlier seasonal peaks are reestablished on the lower river by tributaries fed by hot-season rains.

"We'll be watching closely as the flood wave hits, who tries them and who sticks with them," said Bill Pecoriello, beverage analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York.

His opinion was borne out last year when strong flood waves in July and September damaged hundreds of thousands of hectares of paddy throughout Assam.

6. the extraordinary maintenance intervention of the riverbed and shores of Seveso after flood waves.  .

In downstream areas, landslide dam collapse leads to catastrophic events, such as anomalous destructive flood waves.

But continuous heavy precipitation triggers flood waves in the cave aquifer with a typical time delay of 2 3 days.

A new higher order 1D numerical scheme for the propagation of flood waves in compound channels with a movable bed is presented.