Perceptions of severe weather warnings in Hong Kong

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 377-382

  Wong, T F ^a   Yan, Y Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HONG-KONG; MASS MEDIA; PUBLIC EDUCATION; SEVERE WEATHER; WARNING SIGNALS;

PUBLIC RISKS;

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EDUCATION; MODEL VALIDATION; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SEVERE WEATHER;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 0042367763     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482702003110     Document Type: Article

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