The December 1981 floods in the Garonne watershed, SW France. From December 5, 1981, the whole South western France received heavy rainfalls induced by atlantic depressions. The soils were already saturated with water when the paroxysm occurred (Dec. 12-14, 1981) and rain determined immediately on every stream and river of the entire Garonne's watershed a flood that was almost as quick as the February 1952 one. The conjunction of the major affluents' floods magnified the water flow downwards where the dams and levees that are supposedly built up to protect the lower alluvial terraces appeared of no practical utility. Considering the damages and their extension and knowing that it is not possible to built efficient dams and tanks to stop suc...
Flood plain management pattern and major rises of river level in downstream Garonne. The observation...
Abstract. - Flash flood disaster on 3 October 1988, in the town of Nimes (140 000 inhabitants} and i...
Les « crues rapides » qui naissent dans des « vallons secs » en périodes printanière et estivale (ma...
The December 1981 floods in the Garonne watershed, SW France. From December 5, 1981, the whole South...
The seriousness of the flood of the 8th of July 1977 in Gascogne betrayed the deficiencies of the lo...
The flash-flood of the upper Loire on September 20th 1980 (3 500 m3/s at Bas-en-Basset) had just a w...
During the month of September 1992 a storm sequence of considerable intensity (nearly 300 mm of rain...
Floods and hydroelectric powerplants. The example of the floods of the river Drac and of the river I...
The swelling of September 21 and 22 1980 was due to an extensive mediterranean shower and the water ...
In France, and especially in the Region Centre (Val de Loire, Berry,...), the period 1977-1984 was n...
Abstract. - Floods and torrential streams are a permanent danger for a few urban sectors of the Dore...
The hydrological analysis of the floods of the 12, 13 and 14 novembre 1999 which affected the Agly, ...
Low plains of Languedoc (southern France) are submitted to strong flood risk. Flood hazard is an int...
Summary. — Despite the construction of retaining walls designed to protect the people living alongsi...
Vulnerability and risk during extreme floods: the 2003 Rhône flood in Arles - Tarascon area. Earl...
Flood plain management pattern and major rises of river level in downstream Garonne. The observation...
Abstract. - Flash flood disaster on 3 October 1988, in the town of Nimes (140 000 inhabitants} and i...
Les « crues rapides » qui naissent dans des « vallons secs » en périodes printanière et estivale (ma...
The December 1981 floods in the Garonne watershed, SW France. From December 5, 1981, the whole South...
The seriousness of the flood of the 8th of July 1977 in Gascogne betrayed the deficiencies of the lo...
The flash-flood of the upper Loire on September 20th 1980 (3 500 m3/s at Bas-en-Basset) had just a w...
During the month of September 1992 a storm sequence of considerable intensity (nearly 300 mm of rain...
Floods and hydroelectric powerplants. The example of the floods of the river Drac and of the river I...
The swelling of September 21 and 22 1980 was due to an extensive mediterranean shower and the water ...
In France, and especially in the Region Centre (Val de Loire, Berry,...), the period 1977-1984 was n...
Abstract. - Floods and torrential streams are a permanent danger for a few urban sectors of the Dore...
The hydrological analysis of the floods of the 12, 13 and 14 novembre 1999 which affected the Agly, ...
Low plains of Languedoc (southern France) are submitted to strong flood risk. Flood hazard is an int...
Summary. — Despite the construction of retaining walls designed to protect the people living alongsi...
Vulnerability and risk during extreme floods: the 2003 Rhône flood in Arles - Tarascon area. Earl...
Flood plain management pattern and major rises of river level in downstream Garonne. The observation...
Abstract. - Flash flood disaster on 3 October 1988, in the town of Nimes (140 000 inhabitants} and i...
Les « crues rapides » qui naissent dans des « vallons secs » en périodes printanière et estivale (ma...