Have large dams altered extreme precipitation patterns?

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Volumn 90, Issue 48, 2009, Pages 453-454

  Hossain, F ^a   Jeyachandran, I ^a   Pielke Sr , R ^b  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAM CONSTRUCTION; EXTREME EVENT; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 77749324034     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009EO480001     Document Type: Short Survey

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