Extreme rainfalls in Eastern Himalaya and southern slope of Meghalaya Plateau and their geomorphologic impacts

Geomorphology

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 170-180

  Soja, Roman ^a   Starkel, Leszek ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Clustering; Eastern India; Frequency of extreme rainfalls; New equilibrium; Relaxation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEFORESTATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAND USE; MONSOON; OVERLAND FLOW; PIEDMONT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SLOPE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MEGHALAYA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33846614984     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.01.040     Document Type: Article

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