Global assessment of El Nino's disaster burden

Lancet

Volumn 350, Issue 9089, 1997, Pages 1435-1438

  Bouma, M J ^a   Kovats, R S ^a   Goubet, S A ^b   Cox, J St H ^a   Haines, A ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEALTH; HUNGER; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA; SOUTH ASIA; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANO; WEATHER;

EID: 0031583751     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)04509-1     Document Type: Article

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