Numerical simulations of the 1994 piedmont flood: Role of orography and moist processes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2369-2383

  Buzzi, Andrea ^a   Tartaglione, Nazario ^a   Malguzzi, Piero ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; OROGRAPHY;

ITALY;

EID: 0032453583     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<2369:NSOTPF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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