Use of wetted perimeter in defining minimum environmental flows

River Research and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-67

  Gippel, Christopher J ^a   Stewardson, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic habitat; Environmental flow; Fish habitat; Inflection point; Instream flow; Macroinvertebrate; Transect; Velocity; Water diversion; Weir; Wetted perimeter

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL; DISCHARGE RATE;

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; WATER FLOW; WETTED PERIMETER;

AUSTRALIA, VICTORIA, MELBOURNE;

EID: 0031670664     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1646(199801/02)14:1<53::aid-rrr476>3.0.co;2-z     Document Type: Article

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