Record Balkan floods of 2014 linked to planetary wave resonance

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Stadtherr, Lisa ^a,b   Coumou, Dim ^a   Petoukhov, Vladimir ^a   Petri, Stefan ^a   Rahmstorf, Stefan ^a,c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; MECHANICAL WAVES; RAIN; STORMS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EXTREME RAINFALL; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; QUASI-STATIONARY; THERMODYNAMIC ASPECTS;

FLOODS;

BALKAN PENINSULA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER; FLOODING; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; THERMODYNAMICS;

BALKAN PENINSULA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; FLOODS; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84992086956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501428     Document Type: Article

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