Assessment of the Monthly Water Balance in an Arid Region Using TM Model and GIS (Case Study: Pishkouh Watershed, Iran)

Subject Areas : Relationship between Animal and Rangeland

Jalal Barkhordari ¹ , Ali Asghar Semsar Yazdi ²

1 - Faculty Member, Agricultural Natural Resource Reserch Center of Yazd, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Director of International Center on Qanats and Historic Hydraulic Structures (ICQHS)

Received: 2013-03-07 Accepted : 2013-08-19 Published : 2015-07-01

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