Hydrologic characteristics of floods in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta

Natural Hazards

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 797-811

  Islam, Akm Saiful ^a   Haque, Anisul ^a   Bala, Sujit Kumar ^a  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Danger level; Flood; GBM basin; TRMM

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGY; NATURAL DISASTER; RAINFALL; RIVER BASIN; RIVER WATER; SATELLITE DATA; WATER LEVEL;

BANGLADESH; BRAHMANI RIVER; BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN; DURGAPUR; GANGES DELTA; INDIA; MEGHNA RIVER; ORISSA; SUNAMGANJ; SYLHET; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 77956176177     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9504-y     Document Type: Article

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