The Great avulsion of Kosi on 18 August 2008

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 429-433

  Sinha, Rajiv ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Floods; Ganga plains; Kosi barrage; River dynamics; River management

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849117457     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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