An early warning system for flash floods in hyper-arid Egypt
An early warning system (EWS) for flash floods has been developed for part of the Sinai peninsula of Egypt, an hyper-arid area confronted with limited availability of field data, limited understanding of the response of the wadi to rainfall, and a lack of correspondence between rainfall data and obs...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2012-02-01
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Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/12/443/2012/nhess-12-443-2012.pdf |