Climate Change Impacts on Environmental Hazards on the Great Hungarian Plain, Carpathian Basin

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 136-146

  Mezősi, Gábor ^a   Bata, Teodóra ^a   Meyer, Burghard C ^a   Blanka, Viktória ^a   Ladányi, Zsuzsanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Carpathian Basin; Drought; Great Hungarian Plain; Inland excess water; Regional modeling; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923656399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20950055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13753-014-0016-3     Document Type: Article

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