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Floods - Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 (Sc 2882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2015

Floods - Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 (Sc 2882), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2882. “Notes on Radio Broadcasts” by an unknown author, recording damage and emergencies created by the Ohio River flood at Louisville, Kentucky.


Stout, Alice Virginia, 1908-1983 (Sc 1495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2007

Stout, Alice Virginia, 1908-1983 (Sc 1495), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1495. Journal kept by Stout describing the 1937 Ohio River flood in Louisville, Kentucky. Also includes some telegrams sent to her family in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the same period; photographs of the flood; and clippings about the family and the Cortlandt Hotel, where Stout resided during the flood.


Soil Moisture As An Indicator Of Weather Extremes, Venkat Lakshmi, Thomas C. Piechota, Ujjwal Narayan, Chunling Tang Jun 2004

Soil Moisture As An Indicator Of Weather Extremes, Venkat Lakshmi, Thomas C. Piechota, Ujjwal Narayan, Chunling Tang

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Faculty Research

In this paper, we investigate floods and droughts in the Upper Mississippi basin over a 50-year period (1950–1999) using a hydrological model (Variable Infiltration Capacity Model – 3 Layer). Simulations have been carried out between January 1950 and December 1999 at daily time-step and 1/8° spatial resolution for the water budget and at hourly time-step and 1° spatial resolution for the energy balance. This paper will provide valuable insights to the slow response components of the hydrological cycle and its diagnostic/predictive value in the case of floods and droughts. The paper compares the use of the Palmer Drought Severity Index …


Johnston, Jesse Walter, Sr., 1880-1972 (Sc 1337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1999

Johnston, Jesse Walter, Sr., 1880-1972 (Sc 1337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1337. Journal kept by Jesse Walter Johnston, Sr., Sebree, Webster County, Kentucky, concerning the destructive 1937 flood and data about Johnston. He was minister of the First Baptist Church, Sebree from 1929 to 1944.