Analysis of meteorological and terrain features leading to the Izmir flash flood, 3-4 November 1995

Natural Hazards

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-25

  Kömüşçü, Ali Ümran ^a   Erkan, Ayhan ^a   Çelik, Seyfullah ^a  

^a Research Department   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aegean coast; Convective rainfall; Flash flooding; Flood prone zone; Izmir; Low level advection; Orographic lifting

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; METEOROLOGY; RAINSTORM; TOPOGRAPHY;

TURKEY;

EID: 0032447667     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008078920113     Document Type: Article

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