Relationships between precipitation and floods in the fluvial basins of Central Spain based on documentary sources from the end of the 16th century

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2215-2225

  Bullon T ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; FLOOD; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

SPAIN;

EID: 80051768938     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-2215-2011     Document Type: Article

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