Impact of land-use changes on the hydrological processes in the Elbow River watershed in Southern Alberta

Modelling for Environment's Sake: Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, iEMSs 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 868-875

  Wijesekara, G N ^a   Gupta, A ^b   Valeo, C ^a   Hasbani, J G ^a   Marceau, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Hydrological modelling; Integrated modelling; Land use change modelling; MIKE SHE

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; BASEFLOWS; CA MODEL; CALGARY; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; FLOW DATA; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INTEGRATED MODELLING; LAND-USE CHANGE; MIKE-SHE; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OVERLAND FLOW; RAPID POPULATION GROWTH; RIVER FLOW; RIVER WATERSHEDS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; WATER BALANCE; WATERSHED AREAS; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS;

CALIBRATION; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84863415912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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