Low Flows Regionalization in North-Western Italy

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4049-4074

  Vezza, Paolo ^a   Comoglio, Claudio ^a   Rosso, Maurizio ^a   Viglione, Alberto ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

CART; Classification and regression tree; Low flows; Regional regression; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

CART; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; LOW FLOW; REGIONAL REGRESSION; REGIONALIZATION;

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SOIL MECHANICS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; CATCHMENT; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; LOW FLOW; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; REGIONALIZATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; VALLE D'AOSTA;

EID: 77957694993     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9647-3     Document Type: Article

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