Need of a disaster alert system for India through a network of real-time monitoring of sea-level and other meteorological events

Current Science

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 864-869

  Joseph, Antony ^a   Prabhudesai, R G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Alert systems; Sea level; Storm surge; Tsunami, wireless network

Indexed keywords

EID: 31744444233     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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