Regionalization of natural flow regime: Application to environmental flow optimization at ungauged sites

River Research and Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1071-1089

  Shiau, Jenq Tzong ^a   Wu, Fu Chun ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Histogram matching approach (HMA); Index flood method (IFM); Indicators of hydrologic alteration (IHA); Regionalization approach (RA)

Indexed keywords

BASIN; DECISION MAKING; FLOOD; FLOW MODELING; HISTOGRAM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; RIVER MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 70350331471     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1207     Document Type: Article

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