Sensitivity of surface runoffto drought and climate change: Application for shared river basins

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3033-3048

  Al Faraj, Furat A M ^a   Scholz, Miklas ^a   Tigkas, Dimitris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate alteration; Medbasin model; Nomograph; Reconnaissance drought index; River flow; Runoffcurve number; Soil storage capacity; Streamflow drought index; Transboundary watershed; Water management

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NOMOGRAMS; STREAM FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE ALTERATION; DROUGHT INDICES; RECONNAISSANCE DROUGHT INDICES; RIVER FLOW; RUNOFFCURVE NUMBER; SOIL STORAGE; TRANS-BOUNDARY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; MODEL VALIDATION; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STREAMFLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

DIYALA; IRAN; IRAQ;

EID: 84920667060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6103033     Document Type: Article

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