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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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Hydrological Characterization of Mediterranean Catchments
Antoine Allam
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CREEN, ESIB, Univ. Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon
UMR LISAH, Univ. Montpellier, INRA, Montpellier, France
Roger Moussa
UMR LISAH, Univ. Montpellier, INRA, Montpellier, France
Wajdi Najem
CREEN, ESIB, Univ. Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon
Claude Bocquillon
CREEN, ESIB, Univ. Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon
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Mediterranean water resources are more than ever exposed to the increasing demand of demographic and climatic evolution. To better understand these challenges, this article aimed to collect a hydrological database, establish a new climatic classification for hydrology purposes, identify the physiographic variability and homogeneity in the case of mountainous karstic catchments under snow influence, and analyzed the hydrological balance of 55 catchments according to different functional models.
Mediterranean water resources are more than ever exposed to the increasing demand of demographic...