Fifty-year rainfall change and its effect on droughts and floods in Wenzhou, China

Natural Hazards

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 131-143

  Liu, Yaolong ^a   Chen, Zhenlou ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Xu, Shiyuan ^a   Hu, Beibei ^b  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Droughts and floods; Precipitation; Rainfall change; Wenzhou city

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; WENZHOU; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 79251596777     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9556-z     Document Type: Article

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