High-impact floods and flash floods in Mediterranean countries: The FLASH preliminary database

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 23, Issue , 2010, Pages 47-55

  Llasat, M C ^a   Llasat Botija, M ^a   Prat, M A ^a   Porcu F ^b   Price, C ^c   Mugnai, A ^d   Lagouvardos, K ^e   Kotroni, V ^e   Katsanos, D ^e   Michaelides, S ^f   Yair, Y ^g   Savvidou, K ^f   Nicolaides, K ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^g OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; FLASH FLOOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 77949802606     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-23-47-2010     Document Type: Article

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