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Teaching Floods and Flooding Quantitatively

Teaching Floods and Flooding Quantitatively

This page helps faculty communicate essential ideas that students struggle with in terms of floods and flooding. It takes into account the concepts of probability and recurrence interval and discusses hydrologic terminology, relations between discharge and stage, and the meaning of the '100 year flood.'

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