The water on a small karst island: The island of Korčula (Croatia) as an example

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1345-1357

  Bonacci, Ognjen ^a   Ljubenkov, Igor ^b   Knezić, Snježana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b GRAD INVEST SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Groundwater; Kor ula Island (Croatia); Linear programming; Precipitation; Small karst island; Water supply

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC SEA; AIR TEMPERATURE; CROATIA; ECOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES; ECONOMIC ASPECTS; KARST GEOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; NATURAL FEATURES; OPTIMAL COSTS; SMALL KARST ISLAND; WATER NEEDS; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

GROUNDWATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HYDROGEOLOGY; KARST HYDROLOGY; LINEAR PROGRAMING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINWATER; SMALL ISLAND STATE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADRIATIC SEA; CROATIA; KORCULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84862250179     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1345-9     Document Type: Article

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