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Original Articles

Sensitivity and fuzzy uncertainty analyses in the determination of SCS-CN parameters from rainfall–runoff data

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Pages 457-473 | Received 07 Dec 2016, Accepted 25 Oct 2017, Published online: 28 Feb 2018

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