The Impact of Urbanization on Current and Future Coastal Precipitation: A Case Study for Houston

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

• Publication date

  2010-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1068/b34102t
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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