Further Assessment of Flood- and Drought-dominated Regimes in South-eastern Australia

Australian Geographer

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 257-261

  Erskine, Wayne D ^a   Warner, R F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alternating flood regimes; Channel changes; Cusum; River management; Secular rainfall changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013192978     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049189808703218     Document Type: Article

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