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Effect of a density current on reservoir bottom relief and levels

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 8, pp. 32–34, August, 1979.

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Pyrkin, Y.G., Samolyubov, B.I., Lashchenov, S.Y. et al. Effect of a density current on reservoir bottom relief and levels. Hydrotechnical Construction 13, 788–792 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02305308

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