Was the 2009 flood the most hazardous or the largest ever recorded in the Amazon?

Geomorphology

Volumn 215, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-105

  Filizola, Naziano ^a   Latrubesse, Edgardo M ^b   Fraizy, P ^c   Souza, R ^d   Guimaraes V ^e   Guyot, J L ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^e Ministerio do Meio Ambiente Brazil   (Brazil)

Author keywords

2009; Amazon River; Flood; Hazards; Obidos

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT;

AMAZON BASIN; AMAZON RIVER; BRAZIL; OBIDOS; PARA [BRAZIL];

EID: 84899914643     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.05.028     Document Type: Article

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