The changing nature of flooding across the central United States

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 250-254

  Mallakpour, Iman ^a   Villarini, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; MAGNITUDE; RAINFALL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923925321     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2516     Document Type: Article

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