Flash flood warnings in context: combining local knowledge  and large-scale hydro-meteorological patterns

Bucherie, Agathe; Werner, Micha; van den Homberg, Marc; Tembo, Simon

doi:10.5194/nhess-22-461-2022

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Flash flood warnings in context: combining local knowledge and large-scale hydro-meteorological patterns

Agathe Bucherie, Micha Werner, Marc van den Homberg, and Simon Tembo

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