Understanding hydrological variability for improved water management in the semi-arid Karkheh Basin, Iran

• Main Author: Masih, Ilyas
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : CRC Press/Balkema, 2011.
• Subjects: Water-supply > Management > Iran.; Streamflow > Iran.; Hydrologic cycle.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781466553453
• Physical Description: xx, 176 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Materials and methods
• 3. Streamflow variability and water allocation planning
• 4. Streamflow trends and climate linkages
• 5. Regionalization of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model based on similarity of the flow duration curve
• 6. Impact of areal precipitation input on streamflow simulations
• 7. Quantifying scale-dependent impacts of upgrading rain-fed agriculture
• 8. Synthesis, conclusions and recommendations.