Zwaan, M Avan der Hulst, J MBriggs, FranklinVerheijen, M A WRyan-Weber, E V2015-12-132015-12-130521852056http://hdl.handle.net/1885/79185We calculate in detail the expected properties of low redshift DLAs under the assumption that they arise in the gaseous disks of galaxies like those in the z ≈ 0 population. A sample of 355 nearby galaxies were analysed, for which high quality H I 21-cm200510.1017/S17439213050025282015-12-11