Strange Floods: The Upper Tail of Flood Peaks in the US

James A Smith1, Alexander A Cox1, Mary Lynn Baeck2, Long Yang3 and Paul D Bates4, (1)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (4)University of Bristol, School Of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom