Climatic control of Mississippi River flood hazard amplified by river engineering

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2018-04-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature26145PMID 29620734
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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