Flood risk of natural and embanked landscapes on the Ganges–Brahmaputra tidal delta plain

L. W. Auerbach, S. L. Goodbred (), D. R. Mondal, C. A. Wilson, K. R. Ahmed, K. Roy, M. S. Steckler, C. Small, J. M. Gilligan and B. A. Ackerly
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L. W. Auerbach: Vanderbilt University
S. L. Goodbred: Vanderbilt University
D. R. Mondal: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College—City University of New York
C. A. Wilson: Vanderbilt University
K. R. Ahmed: Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208 Bangladesh
K. Roy: Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208 Bangladesh
M. S. Steckler: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
C. Small: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
J. M. Gilligan: Vanderbilt University
B. A. Ackerly: Vanderbilt University

Nature Climate Change, 2015, vol. 5, issue 2, 153-157

Abstract: Controlled embankment breaches could reduce flood risk for the Ganges–Brahmaputra tidal delta plain as sea level rises.

Date: 2015
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