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Natural Hazards Research Australia
Mitigating the effect of severe fires, floods and heatwaves through improvements to land dryness measures and forecasts
Research outputs and artefacts
31 Oct 2017
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Key Topics
forecasting
land management
mitigation
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Dr Vinod Kumar
Researcher
v.kumar@bom.gov.au
Dr Imtiaz Dharssi
Researcher
i.dharssi@bom.gov.au
Paul Fox-Hughes
End-user
p.fox-hughes@bom.gov.au
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