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11 September 2010
Pakistan floods – the extraordinary duration of the elevated water levels
The floods in Pakistan may have faded from the headlines in Europe, but unfortunately the impact continues, even though the rainfall events that caused them occurred more than a month ago. The most dramatic illustration of this is a set of satellite images collected by NASA using the MODIS instrument. This is an image of the area around Sukkur taken on 7th July, before the rainfall event that initiated the …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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