Assessment of the warning system against floods on a rural area: The case of the lower Siret River (Romania)

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 409-416

  Salit, F ^a,b   Zaharia, L ^b   Beltrando, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WARNING SYSTEM;

SERET RIVER; UKRAINE;

EID: 84874095879     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-409-2013     Document Type: Article

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