Review of Gould-Dincer reservoir storage-yield-reliability estimates

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1873-1882

  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

Dincer; Gould Dincer; Reservoir theory; Storage yield analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW;

CAPACITY-YIELD-RELIABILITY; STORAGE-YIELD-RELIABILITY; STREAMFLOW STATISTICS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW;

ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER RESOURCE; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 34250616690     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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