Hydrometeorological aspects of floods in India

Natural Hazards

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-33

  Dhar, O N ^a   Nandargi, Shobha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Break monsoon situations and rainstorm zones; Cyclonic storms; Floods; Hydrometeorology; Seasonal monsoon trough

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; FLOODING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONSOON; NATURAL HAZARD; RAINSTORM;

INDIA;

EID: 0037284413     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021199714487     Document Type: Article

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