Sediment Delivery Assessment for a Transboundary Mediterranean Catchment: The Example of Nestos River Catchment

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3785-3803

  Zarris, Demetris ^a   Vlastara, Marianna ^a   Panagoulia, Dionysia ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Nestos River; Rating curves; Sediment yield; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

BULGARIA; CATCHMENT AREA; DAM SITE; DRY AND WET; LINE INTERPOLATION; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MEDITERRANEAN CATCHMENT; NESTOS RIVER; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; NORTH AEGEAN SEA; POWER FORMS; PUMPED-STORAGE; RATING CURVE; RATING CURVES; RESERVOIR SITES; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT DELIVERY RATIO; SEDIMENT DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT MEASUREMENTS; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SOIL EROSION; TRANS-BOUNDARY; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DAMS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EROSION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; INTERPOLATION; RATING; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

AEGEAN SEA; BULGARIA; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESTA RIVER;

EID: 80355133325     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9889-8     Document Type: Article

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