Water-quality modelling of the Upper Mersey river system using an object-oriented framework

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 173-194

  Spanou, Maria ^a   Chen, Daoyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Low flow analysis; Object oriented method; River system; Upper Mersey catchment; Water quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009567090     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: 14651734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2001.0017     Document Type: Article

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