Revisiting reservoir storage-yield relationships using a global streamflow database

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1858-1872

  McMahon, Thomas A ^a   Pegram, Geoffrey G S ^b   Vogel, Richard M ^c   Peel, Murray C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour analysis; Extended deficit analysis; Reservoir theory; Sequent peak; Storage yield; Water supply

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RIVERS; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

EXTENDED DEFICIT ANALYSIS; PHIEN EMPIRICAL METHOD; SEQUENT PEAK ALGORITHM; STORAGE-YIELD; VOGEL AND STEDINGER EMPIRICAL METHOD;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW MODELING; RESERVOIR; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 34248211181     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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