Towards a database on societal impact of Mediterranean floods within the framework of the HYMEX project

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1337-1350

  Llasat, M C ^a   Llasat Botija, M ^a   Petrucci, O ^b   Pasqua, A A ^b   Rossello J ^c   Vinet, F ^d   Boissier, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DATABASE; FLASH FLOOD; RAINFALL; SOCIAL IMPACT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; CALABRIA; CATALONIA; FRANCE; ITALY; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDI-PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84879243145     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-1337-2013     Document Type: Article

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