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Dams

Dams is a hydraulic structure designed to impound water or other fluids by means of a barrier across a river or stream, distinguished from other water control structures by its primary function of creating a reservoir for water storage, flood control, hydroelectric power generation, or irrigation.

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A global boom in hydropower dam construction

Christiane Zarfl, Alexander E. Lumsdon, Jürgen Berlekamp et al. · Aquatic Sciences · 2014 · 2.1K citations

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Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision‐Making

World Commission on Dams · Environmental Management and Health · 2001 · 1.4K citations

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Analysis of thick and thin shell structures by curved finite elements

Sohrabuddin Ahmad, Bruce M. Irons, O.C. Zienkiewicz · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering · 1970 · 1.3K citations

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The formation and failure of natural dams

John E. Costa, Robert L. Schuster · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1988 · 1.2K citations

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Dams and development: A new framework for decision-making

Wcd · VTechWorks (Virginia Tech) · 2000 · 1.2K citations

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Authors

15.7K

  1. AK
    Anil K. Chopra

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    40 publications · 2.8K citations

    31

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  2. MA
    Mohammad Amin Hariri‐Ardebili

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    34 publications · 1.6K citations

    23

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  3. CG
    Chongshi Gu

    Hohai University, China

    31 publications · 994 citations

    21

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  4. LZ
    Limin Zhang

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China

    21 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. PM
    Philip M. Fearnside

    Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil

    23 publications · 2.6K citations

    19

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Institutions

3.6K

  1. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    54 h-index

    291 publications

    20.9K citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    43 h-index

    135 publications

    11.4K citations

  3. Hohai University

    Nanjing, China

    39 h-index

    399 publications

    13.4K citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    39 h-index

    249 publications

    18K citations

  5. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

    Silver Spring, United States

    37 h-index

    122 publications

    7.9K citations

  6. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Fisheries Science Center

    Seattle, United States

    37 h-index

    113 publications

    7.5K citations

  7. Tsinghua University

    Beijing, China

    35 h-index

    219 publications

    9.8K citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    34 h-index

    106 publications

    5.7K citations

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  1. River Research and Applications

    92 publications · 4.9K citations

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  2. Water Resources Research

    60 publications · 7.2K citations

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  3. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics

    74 publications · 4.3K citations

    38

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  4. Journal of Animal Science

    136 publications · 4.2K citations

    35

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  5. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

    57 publications · 3.3K citations

    35

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