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Relationships Between Runoff, Land Cover And Climate In The Semi-Arid Intermountain Region Of The Western U.S.A., Ibrahim Nourein Mohammed May 2012

Relationships Between Runoff, Land Cover And Climate In The Semi-Arid Intermountain Region Of The Western U.S.A., Ibrahim Nourein Mohammed

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Hydrologic science is broadly defined as the geoscience that describes and predicts the occurrence, circulation and distribution of the water of the earth and its atmosphere. The need to predict the effects of land cover and climate changes with their associated impacts on hydrology are among the pressing areas of research, especially within the western United States. The main objective of this dissertation is to provide a better knowledge of land use or land cover along with climate change impacts on streamflow generated from watersheds in the semi-arid intermountain region in and around Utah. This objective was addressed using analyses …