Natural streamflow regime alterations: Damming of the Piave river basin (Italy)

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Botter, G ^a   Basso, S ^a   Porporato, A ^b,c   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^d   Rinaldo, A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE CATCHMENTS; ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; CLIMATE PARAMETERS; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; HYDROCLIMATIC; PIAVE CATCHMENT; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RIVER BASINS; RIVER FLOW; STREAMFLOW VARIABILITY; WATER POLICIES; WATER USE;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PROBABILITY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW; SEASONALITY; STREAMFLOW;

ITALY; PIAVE BASIN; VENETO;

EID: 77954395339     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008523     Document Type: Article

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