Investigation of potential water harvesting sites at potohar using modeling approach

Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 723-729

  Waseem Ghani, M ^a   Arshad, M ^a   Shabbir, Abdul ^a   Shakoor, Aamir ^a   Mehmood, Nasir ^a   Ahmad, Ijaz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b Water and Sanitation Agency   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

HEC GeoHMS; HEC HMS; Modeling; Potohar; Remote sensing; Water harvesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891534227     PISSN: 05529034     EISSN: 20760906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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