Impacts of Land-Use Change on Streamflows in the Damansara Watershed, Malaysia

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 713-720

  Amini, Ata ^a   Ali, Thamer Mohammad ^b   Ghazali, Abdul Halim B ^b   Aziz, Azlan A ^b   Akib, Shatirah Mohd ^c  

^a Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Kurdistan   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

HEC HMS; Hydrologic modeling; Land use change; Peak streamflow; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052198323     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-011-0075-3     Document Type: Article

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