An Overview of Disasters Resulted from Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan

Journal of Disaster Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 236-244

  Shieh, Chjeng Lun ^a   Wang, Chun Ming ^a   Chen, Yu Shiu ^a   Tsai, Yuan Jung ^a   Tseng, Wen Hsiao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

compound hazard; flood; rain fall; sediment related disaster; Typhoon Morakot

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; FLOODS; HURRICANES; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; STORMS; WATER SUPPLY;

COMPOUND HAZARD; CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; DOWN-STREAM; LANDSLIDE DAM; RAIN FALLS; RAINFALL DEPTHS; SEDIMENT-RELATED DISASTER; STORM CENTER; TORRENTIAL RAINFALLS; TYPHOON MORAKOT;

HAZARDS;

EID: 79959369464     PISSN: 18812473     EISSN: 18838030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jdr.2010.p0236     Document Type: Article

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