Toward a generalization of the TOPMODEL concepts: Topographic indices of hydrological similarity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2135-2145

  Ambroise, Bruno ^a,d   Beven, Keith ^b   Freer, Jim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Ctr d'Etud Rech EcoGeographiques   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUE;

CATCHMENT; MODEL; PREDICTION; SOIL; WATER TABLE;

CATCHMENTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

HYDROLOGICAL SIMILARITY; RAINFALL/RUNOFF MODEL; TOPMODEL; TOPOGRAPHIC INDEX;

FRANCE, LORRAINE, VOSGES, RINGELBACH;

EID: 0029659803     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR03716     Document Type: Review

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