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Dams and Reservoirs in the Lower Ebro River and Its Effects on the River Thermal Cycle

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Antoni Palau and ENDESA for their assistance and the Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro for the data provided. The authors also thank the Center for Water Research of the University of Western Australia for providing the DYRESM model. Part of the data presented here was the result of projects CGL2004-05503-C02-01/02/HID and GL2008-06377-C02-01/02 funded by the Programa de Recursos Hídricos del Plan Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo. One of the authors has benefitted from an FPI grant from the Programa de Recursos Hídricos del Plan Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo and the European Social Fund.

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  1. Fluvial Dynamics and Hydrological Engineering (FLUMEN), Civil Engineering School, Technical University of Catalonia, C. Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Prats, Martí Sánchez-Juny & Josep Dolz

  2. Fluvial Dynamics and Hydrological Engineering (FLUMEN), University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Joan Armengol (Faculty of Biology) & Rafael Marcé (Faculty of Biology)

  3. Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, 17003, Girona, Spain

    Rafael Marcé (Faculty of Biology)

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Prats, J., Armengol, J., Marcé, R., Sánchez-Juny, M., Dolz, J. (2010). Dams and Reservoirs in the Lower Ebro River and Its Effects on the River Thermal Cycle. In: Barceló, D., Petrovic, M. (eds) The Ebro River Basin. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry(), vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2010_68

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