Studying the extremes: Hydrometeorological investigation of a flood-causing rainstorm over Israel

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 12, Issue , 2007, Pages 107-114

  Morin, E ^a   Harats, N ^a   Jacoby, Y ^a   Arbel, S ^b   Getker, M ^b   Arazi, A ^b   Grodek, T ^a   Ziv, B ^c   Dayan, U ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; FLASH FLOOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINSTORM;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

ARA;

EID: 34548241663     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-12-107-2007     Document Type: Article

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