Drought-induced building damages from simulations at regional scale

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3335-3342

  Corti, T ^a,c   Wuest M ^b   Bresch, D ^b   Seneviratne, S I ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS REINSURANCE COMPANY   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; GEOLOGY; LAND USE; SHRINKAGE; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; SUBSIDENCE; SWELLING;

EID: 84874523378     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-3335-2011     Document Type: Article

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