USGS News and Information on El Niño

What is El Niño?

• What is El Niño? (30-Nov-1999)

Floods

• El Niño Sea-Level Rise Wreaks Havoc in California's San Francisco Bay Region
  (31-Jan-2000)
  
• 1998 California Floods (11-Mar-1998)
• The Spring Runoff Pulse from the Sierra Nevada (14-Jan-1998)
• Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential (16-Dec-1997)
• Climate and Floods in the Southwestern U.S. (10-Jul-1997)
• Real-time flows on rivers and streams
• More USGS information on Floods

Landslides

• Recent landslide events--News and Information (updates regularly)
• Landslide publications and reports (14-Oct-2003)
• USGS Circular 1244 (26-Sep-2003)
  "National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy -- A Framework for Loss Reduction"
• USGS Landslide Hazards web site
• More USGS information on Landslides
• Information on Landslides during the 1997-98 El Niño:
  • Map Showing Locations of Damaging Landslides in Alameda County, California, Resulting From 1997-98 El Niño Rainstorms (10-Jan-2000)
  • El Niño and 1998 California Landslides (20-Mar-1998)
  • Geologic mapping and El Niño: Landslide and debris-flow susceptibility maps, including southern California, Mojave Desert, and San Francisco Bay Area (02-Feb-1998)
  • Landslide Recognition and Safety Guidelines (29-Jan-1998)
  • USGS Producing Landslide Hazard Maps for Emergency Services in San Francisco Bay Area (16-Dec-1997)
  • Potential San Francisco Bay Landslides During El Niño (16-Dec-1997)
  • El Niño and the National Landslide Hazard Outlook for 1997-1998 (16-Dec-1997)
  • Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential
    (16-Dec-1997)

Coastal hazards

• El Niño Sea-Level Rise Wreaks Havoc (31-Jan-2000)
  in California's San Francisco Bay Region
• Coastal Erosion Along the U.S. West Coast During 1997-98 El Niño (12-August-99)
• Coastal Erosion From El Niño Winter Storms (31-Aug-1998)
  with before and after air photos from Southern Washington, Northern Oregon, Central California, and Southern California
• 1982-1983 El Niño Coastal Erosion, San Mateo County, California (6-May-1998)
• 1997-98 El Niño Coastal Monitoring Program (31-Mar-1998)
  with before and after photos of Santa Cruz County, California beach erosion.
• Hydroclimatology of San Francisco Bay Freshwater Inflows and Salinity, with weather and salinity movies (14-Jan-1998)
• El Niño Effects on Sea-Level Near San Francisco Bay (16-Dec-1997)
• Coastal Impacts of an El Niño Season (3-Nov-1997)
• More USGS information on Coastal hazards

Climate

• Long-term climate variation in the Mojave Desert (15-Jan-1998)
• The Spring Runoff Pulse from the Sierra Nevada (14-Jan-1998)
• El Niño Effects on Sea-Level Near San Francisco Bay (16-Dec-1997)
• Effects of El Niño on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential (revised 16-Dec-1997)
• Climate and Floods in the Southwestern U.S. (10-Jul-1997)

News Releases

Other information

• What is El Niño?
• Origin, Incidence, and Implications of Amazon Fires (30-Mar-1998)
• Other sources of El Niño information