Advancing global flood hazard simulations by improving comparability, benchmarking, and integration of global flood models
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A high‐resolution global flood hazard model†
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf3d3