Forest harvesting impacts on the peak flow regime in the Columbia Mountains of southeastern British Columbia: An investigation using long-term numerical modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Schnorbus, Markus ^a,b   Alila, Younes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b 2045 2424 Main Mall ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; DHSVM; Forest harvesting; Peak flow; Runoff synchronization; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOODS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; RUNOFF; SYNCHRONIZATION; VEGETATION;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; FOREST HARVESTING;

WATER RESOURCES;

DEFORESTATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK FLOW; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 2942733475     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002918     Document Type: Article

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