Flooding in eastern central Europe in May 2010 - Reasons, evolution and climatological assessment

Weather

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 147-153

  Bissolli, Peter ^a   Friedrich, Karsten ^a   Rapp, Jörg ^a   Ziese, Markus ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 79957668555     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wea.759     Document Type: Article

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