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The 2007 flood in the Sahel: causes, characteristics and its presentation in the media and FEWS NET
C. Samimi
Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria
A. H. Fink
Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany
H. Paeth
Institute of Geography, University of Würzburg, Germany
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