Reply to comment by Bathurst on "a paradigm shift in understanding and quantifying the effects of forest harvesting on floods in snow environments"

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2759-2764

  Alila, Younes ^a   Green, Kim C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

extrem value; floods; forests; frequency analysis; land use effects; stochastic

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

EXTREM VALUE; FOREST HARVESTING; FORESTS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PARADIGM SHIFTS; STOCHASTIC;

FLOODS;

FLOODS; FORESTS; LAND USE;

EID: 84894743994     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014334     Document Type: Article

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