Damaging rainfall and flooding: The other Sahel hazards

Climatic Change

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 355-377

  Tarhule, Aondover ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FLOODS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

RAIN-INDUCED FLOODING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS;

RAIN;

DROUGHT; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SAVANNA; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NIGER [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 27644524682     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-6792-4     Document Type: Article

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