Rainfall-runoff events in a middle mountain catchment of Nepal

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 331, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 446-458

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Cluster; Middle mountains; Nepal; Rainfall events; Runoff events; Runoff generation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FLOODS; INFILTRATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

RAINFALL EVENTS; RUNOFF EVENTS; RUNOFF GENERATION;

HYDROLOGY;

CORRELATION METHODS; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CATCHMENT; FLOOD; LAND USE; MONSOON; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ASIA; EURASIA; HINDU KUSH; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33750714775     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.05.030     Document Type: Article

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