Streamflow trends and climate linkages in the Zagros Mountains, Iran

Climatic Change

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 317-338

  Masih, I ^a,b   Uhlenbrook, S ^b,c   Maskey, S ^b   Smakhtin, V ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; RIVERS;

CLIMATIC VARIABLES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; STREAM-FLOW VARIABLES; STREAMFLOW RECORDS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE DATA;

STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENT; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; FLOOD; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRIBUTARY;

IRAN; KARKHEH RIVER; KHUZESTAN; ZAGROS;

EID: 78651246894     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9793-x     Document Type: Article

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