Assessment of Environmental Flow Requirements by Entropy-Based Multi-Criteria Decision

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 459-474

  Kim, Zooho ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment ecosystem; Entropy; Environmental flow; IHA; OWA operator

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; HYDROLOGIC ALTERATIONS; IHA; INDICATORS OF HYDROLOGIC ALTERATION (IHA); MULTICRITERIA DECISION; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING OPERATOR; OWA OPERATORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF);

ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ENTROPY;

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RIVER FLOW; TRIBUTARY;

KUM RIVER; SOUTH KOREA;

GEUM;

EID: 84892476938     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0493-y     Document Type: Article

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