Statistical river flow descriptors for environmental flow assessment

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn 340, Issue , 2010, Pages 350-357

  Gottschalk, Lars ^a   Krasovskaia, Irina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Central America; Depth velocity distribution; Duration curves; Environmental flow; Humid tropics

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; DEPTH-VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; DURATION CURVE; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; HUMID TROPICS;

FORESTRY; RIVERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY CONTROL; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW REGULATION; HUMID TROPICS; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RIVER FLOW; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 79952673036     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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