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Research article
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31 May 2023
Research article |  | 31 May 2023

Compound flood events: analysing the joint occurrence of extreme river discharge events and storm surges in northern and central Europe

Philipp Heinrich, Stefan Hagemann, Ralf Weisse, Corinna Schrum, Ute Daewel, and Lidia Gaslikova

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