Estimating watershed area for playas in the Southern High Plains, USA

Wetlands

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 387-395

  Ekanayake, Amy J ^a   Tsai, Jo Szu ^b   Allen, Linda J S ^a   Smith, Loren M ^c   Surles, James G ^a   Allen, Edward J ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Minimal distance method; Topographic map method

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RUNOFF; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77749328055     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/08-37.1     Document Type: Article

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