Progress toward developing a practical societal response to severe convection (2005 EGU Sergei Soloviev Medal Lecture)

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 691-702

  Doswell, III ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; GEOLOGICAL HAZARD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 27644443821     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-5-691-2005     Document Type: Review

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