What Are Estuaries

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Notes from Climate Drought, Snow, and Water I: Room 304-6

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Notes from Climate Drought, Snow, and Water I: Room 304-6.Notes by Ben Livneh.I. Robert Oglesby (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) Climate Drivers for Droughts and Pluvials Across the Central US during the Future, Historic, and Pre-Historical Periods: How do human activities affect them?

Estuaries and Coasts

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Estimating Evapotranspiration from Weather Data

Vishal K. Mehta.Arghyam/Cornell University.A simple water balance model.The water balance 2.Thorntwaite-Mather soil water balance model 3.Model Description 3.The Hydrograph 6.Seasonal Soil Water status 7.Applications and Limitations 8.Vishal K. Mehta (Arghyam Trust/Cornell University)

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Paleolimnology of Iberian Lakes: the 2004 LRC-IPE Survey

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Distubance-Based Ecosystem Approach for Maintaining and Restoring Southern Steelhead Habitat

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