Flood intensification due to changes in land use

Water Resources Management

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1051-1067

  Saghafian, Bahram ^a   Farazjoo, Hassan ^b   Bozorgy, Babak ^c   Yazdandoost, Farhad ^c  

^a SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b Golestan Regional Water Company   (Iran)

^c K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flood; Flood source areas; GIS; HEC HMS; Land use changes; Land use scenario; Rainfall runoff model; Unit flood response

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOOD CONTROL; FLUID MECHANICS; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SULFATE MINERALS; SURFACE DISCHARGES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATERSHEDS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (E ,3E) PROCESS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; ANNUAL MAXIMUM; BUSINESS MEDIA; CONTROL PLANNING; CONTROL STRUCTURES; FLOOD DISCHARGING; FLOOD HYDROGRAPHS; FLOOD PEAK DISCHARGE; FLOOD PEAKS; FLOOD POTENTIAL; FLOOD RESPONSE; LAND USE CHANGES; NON-STATIONARITY; PEAK FLOWS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING; RELATIVE CHANGES; SOURCE AREAS; SPRINGER (CO); SUBWATERSHEDS; TREND ANALYSIS;

LAND USE;

FLOOD; FLOOD CONTROL; LAND USE CHANGE; PEAK DISCHARGE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; WATERSHED;

ASIA; EURASIA; GOLESTAN; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 46949111207     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-007-9210-z     Document Type: Article

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