Simulating past droughts and associated building damages in France

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1739-1747

  Corti, T ^a   Muccione, V ^b   Kollner Heck P ^b   Bresch, D ^b   Seneviratne, S I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS REINSURANCE COMPANY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAMAGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUBSIDENCE; SWELLING;

FRANCE;

EID: 76149112446     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-13-1739-2009     Document Type: Article

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