Integrating Environmental Flows into Multi-Objective Reservoir Management for a Transboundary, Water-Scarce River Basin: Rio Grande/Bravo

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2471-2484

  Porse, Erik C ^a   Sandoval Solis, Samuel ^b   Lane, Belize A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental flows; Integrated water resources management; Optimization; Rio Bravo; Rio Grande; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RIO BRAVO; RIO GRANDE; SIMULATION;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

EID: 84939995758     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-0952-8     Document Type: Article

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