Search Results - subject:"Heavy precipitation"

Early rainfall shocks and later-life outcomes : evidence from Colombia

Bermúdez, Bladimir Carrillo - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 34 (2020) 1, pp. 179-209

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Characterization and assessment of the devastating natural hazards across the Canadian Prairie Provinces from 2009 to 2011

Brimelow, Julian; Stewart, Ronald; Hanesiak, John; … - In: Natural Hazards 73 (2014) 2, pp. 761-785

From 2009 to 2011, the Canadian Prairies were subjected to exceptionally variable precipitation regimes, ranging between record drought and unprecedented flooding. Adjacent regions concurrently experienced droughts and floods, and individual areas transitioned rapidly from pluvial to drought...

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Forcing mechanisms of a heavy precipitation event in the southeastern Adriatic area

Ivančan-Picek, Branka; Horvath, Kristian; Mahović, Nataša - In: Natural Hazards 72 (2014) 2, pp. 1231-1252

Adriatic region, which is prone to relatively frequent heavy precipitation events that occur mostly in autumn. This area is one … was not the crucial factor in the heavy precipitation near Dubrovnik. This study highlights the need for a dense network …

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