Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1417-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1417-2014
Research article
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05 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 05 Jun 2014

Flood design recipes vs. reality: can predictions for ungauged basins be trusted?

A. Efstratiadis, A. D. Koussis, D. Koutsoyiannis, and N. Mamassis

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