Estimation of rational runoff coefficients for Texas watersheds

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3339-3348

  Dhakal, Nirajan ^a   Fang, Xing ^a   Cleveland, Theodore G ^b   Thompson, David B ^c   Marzen, Luke J ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas Tech University   (United States)

^c RO Anderson Engineering Inc   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficients; Drainage; Runoff; Texas; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL TEXAS; CHANNEL LENGTH; COEFFICIENTS; DRAINAGE AREA; KEY PARAMETERS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MEAN VALUES; OBSERVED DATA; PEAK DISCHARGE; RATE OF INCREASE; RATIONAL METHODS; REGRESSION EQUATION; RETURN PERIODS; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; RUNOFF DATA;

LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 77954993151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41114(371)344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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