Increasing river floods: fiction or reality?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 329-344

  Blöschl, Günter ^a   Gaál, Ladislav ^a   Hall, Julia ^a   Kiss, Andrea ^a   Komma, Jürgen ^a   Nester, Thomas ^a   Parajka, Juraj ^a   Perdigão, Rui A P ^a   Plavcová, Lenka ^b   Rogger, Magdalena ^a   Salinas, José Luis ^a   Viglione, Alberto ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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EID: 85136563954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20491948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/WAT2.1079     Document Type: Article

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