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Assessment Of The Impacts Of Land-Use Change On Streamflow Of The Chipola River, Maryam Arif
Assessment Of The Impacts Of Land-Use Change On Streamflow Of The Chipola River, Maryam Arif
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Analysis of the impacts of land-use change on streamflow is crucial for the sustainable development of water resources and land-use management practices. Specifically, the understanding of the urbanization impacts on streamflow will significantly help water resources and land-use managers and planners in decision-making processes. Therefore, this study was designed to analyze the potential impacts of future land-use change, specifically of urbanization on the streamflow of the Chipola River using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) in ArcGIS for four years (2015-2018). Implementing the SWAT model required 1) a digital elevation model (DEM); 2) land use maps from 2016 and …