Effects of reservoirs on seasonal discharge of Irtysh River measured by Lepage test

Water Science and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 363-372

  Huang, Feng ^a   Xia, Zi Qiang ^a   Guo, Li Dan ^a   Yang, Fu Cheng ^b  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Sichuan Electric Power Design and Consulting Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Effects of reservoirs; Irtysh River; Lepage test; Seasonal discharge

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; RIVERS;

AUTUMN PRECIPITATION; CASCADE RESERVOIRS; DISCHARGE CHANGES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; IRTYSH RIVER; RELEASED WATERS; SPRING DISCHARGES; TWO-SAMPLE TESTS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

EID: 84911481841     PISSN: 16742370     EISSN: 24058106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3882/j.issn.1674-2370.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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