The changing patterns of floods in Poyang Lake, China: characteristics and explanations

Natural Hazards

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 651-666

  Li, Xianghu ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a,b   Xu, Chong Yu ^c,d   Ye, Xuchun ^e  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flood; Land reclamation; Poyang Lake; Runoff; Stages; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925467238     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1509-5     Document Type: Article

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