A quality assessment framework for natural hazard event documentation: Application to trans-basin flood reports in Germany

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 189-208

  Uhlemann, S ^a,b,c   Thieken, A H ^b   Merz, B ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c Research and Development   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; NATURAL HAZARD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84893616090     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-189-2014     Document Type: Article

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