Rainfall on the Meghalaya plateau in northeastern India-one of the rainiest places in the world

Natural Hazards

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 391-399

  Murata, Fumie ^a   Hayashi, Taiichi ^b   Matsumoto, Jun ^c   Asada, Haruhisa ^c  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cherrapunjee; Flood; Mawsynram; Meghalaya; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INDIA; MEGHALAYA;

EID: 72549114618     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-9084-z     Document Type: Article

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