Physical interpretations of regional variations in the scaling exponents of flood quantiles

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 1995, Pages 347-361

  Gupta, Vijay K ^a   Dawdy, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiscaling; Rainfall; Regional floods; Runoff; Simple scaling; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SCALING;

BASIN RESPONSE; FLOOD FREQUENCY; PRECIPITATION INPUT; REGIONAL VARIATION; SCALING;

USA;

EID: 0029412304     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.3360090309     Document Type: Article

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