Development of Weater-Dependent Flow Requirements of River Temperature Control

摘要

Streamflow infleunces biological processes, habitat, and ecological integrity of streams in a number of vital ways. The estabishment of weather-dependent minimum flows is essential to the protection of the aquatic environment and widife habitat from the adverse impacts of high water temepratures and to the effective utilization of the assimilative capacity of instream flows. In this study, weather-dependent flow requriements for summer river temperature control are derived from quantitative temepraturefow relationships.