Regional trend detection of Turkish river flows

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-182

  Topaloǧlu, Fatih ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Annual flows; Monthly flows; Regional Mann Kendall test; Trend detection; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; RIVER DIVERSION; RIVERS;

ANNUAL FLOWS; MONTHLY FLOWS; REGIONAL MANN-KENDALL TEST; REGIONAL TREND DETECTION; TURKEY; TURKISH RIVER FLOWS;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER FLOW; STREAMFLOW;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 33744475341     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2006.006     Document Type: Article

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