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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Climate change track in river floods in Europe
Z. W. Kundzewicz
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Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bukowska 19, 60-809 Poznań, Poland
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg 31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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