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Flood Intensification due to Changes in Land Use
Saghafian, Bahram; Farazjoo, Hassan; Bozorgy, Babak; … - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 8, pp. 1051-1067
roughness leading to higher flood discharges. This study aims at quantifying possible effects of land use changes and … identifying flood source areas for future flood control planning in the Golestan watershed located northeast of Iran. A … preliminary trend analysis on the annual maximum flood record of three stations inside the watershed showed that two stations were …
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Assessing Impact of Flood on River Dynamics and Susceptible Regions: Geomorphometric Analysis
Sharma, C.; Mishra, A.; Panda, S. - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 9, pp. 2615-2638
Natural climatic hazards like flood, an important hydro-geomorphic process of earth’s surface, have different regional … week of June 2005. This study is about assessing the impact of Gujarat flood on river dynamics. It deals with extraction of … better accuracy of MNDWI in separating water bodies. The water bodies area increased by 10.4 % in post-flood monsoon compared …
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Towards a Drought Watch System based on Spatial SPI
Tsakiris, G.; Vangelis, H. - In: Water Resources Management 18 (2004) 1, pp. 1-12
Regional Drought can be assessed through various meaningfulprocedures mainly related to the expected consequences. However, a general knowledge of the occurrence of drought, thearea which is affected, its severity and its duration are ofgreat importance for a series of decisions, which may...
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Minimising the Earthwork Cost in the Construction of Irrigation Offstream Reservoirs
Agüera, Francisco; Aguilar, Fernando; Aguilar, Manuel; … - In: Water Resources Management 21 (2007) 2, pp. 375-397
In the majority of agricultural areas it is necessary to construct irrigation offstream reservoirs to store the required amount of water to be available at any time. In this type of projects, the earthwork can represent up to 80% of the total budget, therefore, one of the criteria in their...
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Optimization of Multireservoir Systems by Genetic Algorithm
Hınçal, Onur; Altan-Sakarya, A.; Ger, A. Metin - In: Water Resources Management 25 (2011) 5, pp. 1465-1487
Application of optimization techniques for determining the optimal operating policy of reservoirs is a major issue in water resources planning and management. As an optimization Genetic Algorithm, ruled by evolution techniques, have become popular in diversified fields of science. The main aim...
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Multi-Criteria Analysis Framework for Potential Flood Prone Areas Mapping
Papaioannou, G.; Vasiliades, L.; Loukas, A. - In: Water Resources Management 29 (2015) 2, pp. 399-418
potential flood-prone areas, which is directly connected to the European Directive (2007/60). This study presents a framework … for mapping potential flooding areas incorporating geographic information systems (GIS), fuzzy logic and clustering … characteristics of the basin as well as to anthropogenic land use. GIS and numerical simulation are used for geographic data …
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A Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach for Locating Suitable Sites for Construction of Subsurface Dams in Northern Pakistan
Jamali, Imran; Mörtberg, Ulla; Olofsson, Bo; Shafique, … - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 14, pp. 5157-5174
<Para ID="Par1">Pakistan is an agricultural country with an increasing interest for hydropower. Water management problems such as sedimentation and evaporation have been of high concern for surface water reservoirs for many years. Therefore, groundwater storage through subsurface dams could be promising,...</para>
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GIS-Integrated Rice Irrigation Management Information System for a River-Fed Scheme
Rowshon, M.; Amin, M.; Lee, T.; Shariff, A. - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 14, pp. 2841-2866
distributed data helps to make management system simpler. A GIS-integrated tool known as RIMIS was developed for equitable …. RIMIS dynamically links a field irrigation demand prediction model for the area irrigated by a canal network in GIS. The …
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Effect of Precipitation Timescale Selection on Tempo-spatial Assessment of Paddy Water Demand in Chikugo-Saga Plain, Japan
Cai, Yi; Mitani, Yasuhiro; Ikemi, Hiro; Liu, Shuguang - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 6, pp. 1731-1746
using agro-statistic data, land use and meteorological data under GIS environment. Then, the daily and monthly precipitation … frequency and the amount of the concentrated heavy rainfall. From the investigation, it can be concluded that the proposed GIS …
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Integrated Water Resource Development Plan for Sustainable Management of Mayurakshi Watershed, India using Remote Sensing and GIS
Chowdary, V.; Ramakrishnan, D.; Srivastava, Y.; … - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 8, pp. 1581-1602
terrain parameters. Geographical Information System (GIS) with its capability of integration and analysis of spatial, aspatial … development plans were generated for Mayurakshi watershed, India using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Adopting Integrated … prerequisites for water resources planning and development. Spatial data integration and analyses are carried out in GIS environment …
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