Analysis of historical floods on the Yangtze River, China: Characteristics and explanations

Geomorphology

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 210-216

  Yu, Fengling ^a   Chen, Zhongyuan ^b   Ren, Xianyou ^c   Yang, Guifang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic influence; Basin wide floods; Middle and lower Yangtze Basin; Monsoonal oscillation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASIN; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DISCHARGE; FLOODING; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 70350370305     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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