Dams on Mekong tributaries as significant contributors of hydrological alterations to the Tonle Sap Floodplain in Cambodia

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5303-5315

  Arias, M E ^a,e   Piman, T ^b   Lauri, H ^c   Cochrane, T A ^a   Kummu, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Mekong River Commission   (Laos)

^c EIA Finland Ltd   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DAMS; ECOLOGY; FLOODS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; WATER LEVELS; WATER RESOURCES;

DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS; FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVES; HYDRO-POWER DEVELOPMENT; HYDRO-POWER GENERATION; HYDROLOGICAL ALTERATIONS; HYDROPOWER POTENTIAL; INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT;

RIVERS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER GENERATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER LEVEL;

CAMBODIA; MEKONG BASIN; TONLE SAP LAKE;

EID: 84919624580     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-5303-2014     Document Type: Article

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