Rainfall amount and intensity in a rural catchment of the middle mountains, Nepal

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-143

  Merz, Juerg ^a   Dangol, Pradeep M ^b   Dhakal, Madhav P ^b   Dongol, Bhawani S ^b   Weingartner, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Erositivity; Hindu Kush Himalaya; Intensity duration frequency; Nepal; Rainfall amount; Rainfall intensity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; FLOOD CONTROL; LANDFORMS; RAIN GAGES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

FLOOD GENERATION; INTENSITY-DURATION-FREQUENCY; NEPAL; RAINFALL AMOUNT; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RURAL CATCHMENT; SOIL EROSION;

CATCHMENTS;

RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 32544460669     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.51.1.127     Document Type: Article

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