Global streamflows - Part 2: Reservoir storage-yield performance

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 347, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 260-271

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Global hydrology; Global rivers; Reservoir capacity yield; Reservoir performance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

GLOBAL HYDROLOGY; GLOBAL RIVERS; RESERVOIR CAPACITY-YIELD; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE;

STREAM FLOW;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STREAM FLOW;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROLOGY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; RESILIENCE; STREAMFLOW; VULNERABILITY;

AFRICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 36249012553     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.021     Document Type: Article

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