Modelling impacts of regulation on flows to the Lowbidgee floodplain of the Murrumbidgee River, Australia

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PB, 2014, Pages 1660-1667

  Ren, Shiquan ^a   Kingsford, Richard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

LOESS and leave one out samples; Long term annual low and high regulated flow modelling; Lower Murrumbidgee; Nash Sutcliffe coefficient of efficiency and Kolmogorov Smirnov test; Structural change tests

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOW MODELLING; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; LOWER MURRUMBIDGEE; ON FLOW;

CATCHMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW MODELING; FLOW REGULATION; RIVER FLOW; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ALPS; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; BURRINJUCK DAM; CANBERRA; LOWBIDGEE FLOODPLAIN; MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES; SNOWY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84907972552     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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