A national low flow estimation procedure for Austria

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 625-644

  Laaha, Gregor ^a   Blöschl, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Catchment grouping; Climate variability adjustment; Droughts; Low flows; Prediction of ungauged catchments (PUB); Predictive uncertainty; Regional regression; Regionalisation; Seasonality index

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DROUGHT; ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE VIARIABILITY ADJUSTMENT; FLOW ESTIMATION; PREDICTION OF UNGAUGED CATCHMENTS; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; SEASONALITY INDEX;

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENT; DROUGHT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LOW FLOW; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34547758014     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.52.4.625     Document Type: Article

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