A Multimethod Approach towards Assessing Urban Flood Patterns and Its Associated Vulnerabilities in Singapore

Advances in Meteorology

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chow, Winston T L ^a,b   Cheong, Brendan D ^a   Ho, Beatrice H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84976905722     PISSN: 16879309     EISSN: 16879317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/7159132     Document Type: Article

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