Efcam: A method for assessing alteration of environmental flow components

River Research and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 825-844

  Fitzhugh, T W ^a  

^a FitzHugh Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Dam operations; Environmental flows; Hydrologic alteration; Streamflow statistics

Indexed keywords

DAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER FLOW; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84908479156     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.2681     Document Type: Article

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