Cumulative impacts of river engineering, mississippi and lower missouri rivers

River Research and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 546-571

  Pinter, Nicholas ^a   Jemberie, Abebe A ^a   Remo, Jonathan W F ^a   Heine, Reuben A ^b   Ickes, Brian S ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERBANK FLOW; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER SYSTEM;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953391073     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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