Assessment of climate change impact on water diversion from the Bago River to the Moeyingyi wetland, Myanmar

Current Science

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 377-384

  Shrestha, Manish ^a   Shrestha, Sangam ^a   Datta, Avishek ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrological analysis; Water diversion; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010952916     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18520/cs/v112/i02/377-384     Document Type: Article

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