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The 1996 Lake Ha! Ha! breakout flood, Quebec: Test data for geomorphic flood routing methods

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Capart, Hervé [National Taiwan University] Spinewine, Benoît [UCL] Young, DL [National Taiwan University] Zech, Yves [UCL] Brooks, Gregory R [Natural Resources Canada] Secretan, Yves [University of Québec]

This paper describes a set of field data suitable for the testing and comparative assessment of geomorphic flood routing methods. The data pertain to a particularly severe and unusually well-documented flood event: the Lake Ha! Ha! breakout flood of July 1996 in the Saguenay Region of Québec. In this event, heavy rains combined with the incision of a new lake outlet caused a major flood, which significantly reworked the downstream valley. Published and unpublished data from multiple sources are assembled and co-registered in a common frame of reference. These data include vertical and oblique air photos, hydrological records, surface geology information, and digital terrain models of the pre- and post-flood valley topography. The spatial coverage encompasses the drained lake as well as the full length of the downstream valley. To meet the respective needs of two- and one-dimensional approaches, the topography is sampled on a Cartesian mesh as well as interpolated along evenly-spaced cross-sections. The data set described in the paper is provided in digital form in the electronic supplement to this special issue

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2007
Language Anglais
Journal information "Journal of Hydraulic Research" - Vol. 45, no. Extra Issue, p. 97-109 (2007)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research ((Spain) Delft)
issn 0022-1686
Publication status Publié
Affiliations National Taiwan University - Dept of Civil Engineering
UCL - SST/IMMC/GCE - Civil and environmental engineering
UCL - FSA/AUCE - Département d'architecture, d'urbanisme et de génie civil environnemental
Natural Resources Canada - Geological Survey Canada
University of Québec - INRS-ETE
Keywords Dam break ; Geomorphic floods ; Lake drainage ; River morphodynamics ; Field data
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Bibliographic reference Capart, Hervé ; Spinewine, Benoît ; Young, DL ; Zech, Yves ; Brooks, Gregory R ; et. al. The 1996 Lake Ha! Ha! breakout flood, Quebec: Test data for geomorphic flood routing methods. In: Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 45, no. Extra Issue, p. 97-109 (2007)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/73241