Hydrological delineation of homogeneous regions in Tunisia

Water Resources Management

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 961-977

  Abida, Habib ^a   Ellouze, Manel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Climatic and physiographic characteristics; Delineation; Hydrologic homogeneity; Linear moments

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HYDROMETERS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF); HYDROLOGIC HOMOGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL DELINEATION; PHYSIOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS;

HYDROLOGY;

FLOODS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HYDROLOGY; HYDROMETERS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOOD; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGY; HYDROMETRY;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

EID: 33750402180     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-006-9017-3     Document Type: Article

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