Challenges of Hydrologic Nonstationarity: Mountain Torrent Control in China
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 24, Issue 3
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the comments and suggestions given by the editors and the anonymous reviewers. This study was financially supported by the National Mountain Flood Disaster Investigation Project (No. SHZH-IWHR-57), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 91647110, 91547205, and 51579181), the Program for the Bingwei Excellent Talents from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS (No. 2017074).
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Received: Aug 9, 2018
Accepted: Sep 5, 2018
Published online: Jan 4, 2019
Published in print: Mar 1, 2019
Discussion open until: Jun 4, 2019
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