Assessing planning approaches by watershed streamflow modeling: Case study of The Woodlands; Texas

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-22

  Yang, Bo ^a   Li, Ming Han ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological planning; Flood mitigation; GIS; Ian McHarg; Kinematic runoff and erosion model; Soil and water assessment tool

Indexed keywords

DATA STREAMS; ECOLOGY; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; PLANNING; RUNOFF; SOILS; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; WATERSHEDS;

ECOLOGICAL PLANNING; EROSION MODELING; FLOOD MITIGATION; IAN MCHARG; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOLS;

STREAM FLOW;

CALIBRATION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOW MODELING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GIS; INFILTRATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; OWNERSHIP; PEAK DISCHARGE; PERMEABILITY; RUNOFF; SOIL TYPE; STREAMFLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED; WOODLAND;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78449305493     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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