Sentence examples for maximum flood height from inspiring English sources

Fig. 3 The month of occurrence of the yearly maximum flood height at the gauging station on the Hitachitone River for the 20 year period 1996 2015 (black bars) and the monthly precipitation at Nikko (white bars).

To put that into context, such an amount of extra ocean water would have put Hurricane Sandy's maximum flood height at the tip of Manhattan in 2012 at more than 17 feet, while parts of Hurricane Katrina's surge along in New Orleans in 2005 would have been taller than 23 feet.

Neither mortality nor recruitment rate showed significant linear correlations with the maximum flood level height observed in the study plots (Fig. 4).

The results show that Dam Failure Risk can be estimated by using the variables Dam Height, Dam Length, Maximum Flood Water Volume, Flood Water Surface Area, Mean Annual Rainfall (based on Met Office data), Altitude, Catchment Size, Urban Catchment Proportion, Forest Catchment Proportion and Managed Maximum Flood Water Volume.

In our study, a significant flooding effect was however detected on wood density, which increased significantly with increasing flood height and duration, and for maximum tree height of the stands, which decreased significantly in direction of the river.

Flood height and width were measured based on flood marks on the river bank.

Semi structured interviews with local witnesses of the event, field measurements of local features, as well as secondary data sources provided information on wave height at the shoreline, landscape characteristics as well as tsunami impacts inland, i.e. structural damage and maximum flood distance.

Traditionally, deterministic flood procedures such as the Probable Maximum Flood have been used for critical infrastructure design.

The Red River reached its greatest flood height in 1826.

This procedure, that starts from a consolidated geomorphic algorithm, relies on calibrating the flood height-dependent TWI threshold through maximum likelihood estimation and inundation maps carried out at micro-scale level for a given spatial window.

b Maximum flooding surface of the Shaximiao Formation.