The seriousness of the flood of the 8th of July 1977 in Gascogne betrayed the deficiencies of the local system of flood forecasting. The sequence of facts allows us to grasp the violence of the phenomenon, the importance of the damage. The rain fall was tremendous : 750 hm³ over 7 500 km² within 16 hours. Such meteorological processes, which are analysed here as minutely as was allowed by the documents, happen quite exceptionaly in the centre of the Bassin Aquitain. The disastrous effects of the flood are related with structural and circumstantial causes. Among the former : the physiography of the drainage basins, and also the techniques of local farming ; among the latter, the fact that the region was still in a situation of "hydrologic wi...
In France, and especially in the Region Centre (Val de Loire, Berry,...), the period 1977-1984 was n...
Exceptional precipitation (up to 300 mm within four hours) hit the South of France on 21 and 22 Sept...
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The seriousness of the flood of the 8th of July 1977 in Gascogne betrayed the deficiencies of the lo...
On possible relations between the july 1977 floods in Gascony (south western France) and the recent ...
The December 1981 floods in the Garonne watershed, SW France. From December 5, 1981, the whole South...
Abstract. - Flash flood disaster on 3 October 1988, in the town of Nimes (140 000 inhabitants} and i...
Abstract. - The floods which happened in the seventies and eighties and the regular increase of dama...
The rainstorms on July 24, 1995, in the Briançonnais region caused a series of torrential floods and...
Abstract The heavy rainfall which fell over the Département of the Aude on November 12-13 1999 cause...
In the north west of the Paris basin (Eure, Seine-Maritime, Somme, Oise, Aisne, Nord, Pas-de-Calais)...
Devastating floods forecasts based on meteorological typology (valley of Durance, South Alps). High...
Abstract The studies carried out by the authors for several years, concerning runoff and erosion in ...
Dans le nord-ouest du Bassin parisien (Eure, Seine-Maritime, Somme, Oise, Aisne, Nord, Pas-de-Calais...
Abstract. - This paper relates the catastrophic torrential flood which occurs on July 14th on the to...
In France, and especially in the Region Centre (Val de Loire, Berry,...), the period 1977-1984 was n...
Exceptional precipitation (up to 300 mm within four hours) hit the South of France on 21 and 22 Sept...
[Departement_IRSTEA]RE [TR1_IRSTEA]RIE / TRANSFEAUInternational audienceThe Cévennes–Vivarais Medite...
The seriousness of the flood of the 8th of July 1977 in Gascogne betrayed the deficiencies of the lo...
On possible relations between the july 1977 floods in Gascony (south western France) and the recent ...
The December 1981 floods in the Garonne watershed, SW France. From December 5, 1981, the whole South...
Abstract. - Flash flood disaster on 3 October 1988, in the town of Nimes (140 000 inhabitants} and i...
Abstract. - The floods which happened in the seventies and eighties and the regular increase of dama...
The rainstorms on July 24, 1995, in the Briançonnais region caused a series of torrential floods and...
Abstract The heavy rainfall which fell over the Département of the Aude on November 12-13 1999 cause...
In the north west of the Paris basin (Eure, Seine-Maritime, Somme, Oise, Aisne, Nord, Pas-de-Calais)...
Devastating floods forecasts based on meteorological typology (valley of Durance, South Alps). High...
Abstract The studies carried out by the authors for several years, concerning runoff and erosion in ...
Dans le nord-ouest du Bassin parisien (Eure, Seine-Maritime, Somme, Oise, Aisne, Nord, Pas-de-Calais...
Abstract. - This paper relates the catastrophic torrential flood which occurs on July 14th on the to...
In France, and especially in the Region Centre (Val de Loire, Berry,...), the period 1977-1984 was n...
Exceptional precipitation (up to 300 mm within four hours) hit the South of France on 21 and 22 Sept...
[Departement_IRSTEA]RE [TR1_IRSTEA]RIE / TRANSFEAUInternational audienceThe Cévennes–Vivarais Medite...