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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1337-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-1337-2017
Research article
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09 Aug 2017
Research article |  | 09 Aug 2017

A comparative survey of the impacts of extreme rainfall in two international case studies

Matthieu Spekkers, Viktor Rözer, Annegret Thieken, Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis, and Heidi Kreibich

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