The study aims to set and implement environmentally relevant limits for the exploitation of mountain streams in the Kura River basin of Azerbaijan. Such streams represent the preferred spawning grounds for valuable sturgeon of the Caspian Sea, but experience continuously increasing exploitation i...
Abbasov, R.K.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Introducing environmental thresholds into water withdrawal management of mountain streams in the Kura River Basin, Azerbaijan]
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Introducing environmental thresholds into water withdrawal management of mountain streams in the Kura River Basin, Azerbaijan
Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Revenga, Carmen
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D?ll, P.
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[A pilot global assessment of environmental water requirements and scarcity]
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A pilot global assessment of environmental water requirements and scarcity
The rituals of riparian communities are frequently linked to the flow regimes of their river. These dependencies need to be identified, quantified and communicated to policy makers who manage river flows. This paper describes the first attempt to explicitly evaluate the flows required to maintain...
Lokgariwar, C.
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Chopra, R.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Bharati, Luna
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O'Keeffe, J.
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[Including cultural water requirements in environmental flow assessment: an example from the upper Ganga river, India]
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Including cultural water requirements in environmental flow assessment: an example from the upper Ganga river, India
Reduction of input uncertainty is a challenge in hydrological modeling. The widely used model Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) uses the data of a precipitation gauge nearest to the centroid of each subcatchment as an input for that subcatchment. This may not represent overall catchment precipita...
Masih, Ilyas
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Maskey, S.
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Uhlenbrock, Silke
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Assessing the impact of areal precipitation input on streamflow simulations using the SWAT model]
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Assessing the impact of areal precipitation input on streamflow simulations using the SWAT model
The paper describes a method and software package for desktop assessment of environmental flows - a hydrological regime designed to maintain a river in some agreed ecological condition. The method uses monthly flow data and is built around a flow duration curve, which ensures that elements of nat...
Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Eriyagama, Nishadi
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[Developing a software package for global desktop assessment of environmental flows]
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Developing a software package for global desktop assessment of environmental flows
Morid, S.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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Moghaddasi, M.
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[Comparison of seven meteorological indices for drought monitoring in Iran]
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Comparison of seven meteorological indices for drought monitoring in Iran
This paper examines the nexus between milk production and water use in India. The nexus is examined in the context of extended consumptive water use (CWU) of milk production beyond drinking water. It includes the real CWU (evapotranspiration (ETa) that occurs during the production of green fodder...
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Shah, Tushaar
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Water-milk nexus in India: a path to a sustainable water future?]
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Water-milk nexus in India: a path to a sustainable water future?
Kim, U.
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Kaluarachchi, Jagath J.
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Generation of monthly precipitation under climate change for the upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia]
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Generation of monthly precipitation under climate change for the upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia
Subsurface flow is an important component of the catchment hydrological cycle. Various mechanisms of this process and their role in storm-flow generation attracted the attention of many researchers throughout the twentieth century. The results of most of these studies are well documented. However...
Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Some early Russian studies of subsurface storm-flow processes]
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Some early Russian studies of subsurface storm-flow processes
Gamage, M.S.D.Nilantha
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Smakhtin, Vladimir U.
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[Do river deltas in east India retreat? A case of the Krishna Delta]
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Do river deltas in east India retreat? A case of the Krishna Delta