Increasing Singapore's resilience to drought

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4543-4548

  Ziegler, Alan D ^a   Terry, James P ^a   Oliver, Grahame J H ^a   Friess, Daniel A ^a   Chuah, Chong Joon ^a   Chow, Winston T L ^a   Wasson, Robert J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT RESISTANCE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84904256371     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10212     Document Type: Article

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