On Hack's law

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3367-3374

  Rigon, Riccardo ^a,b   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^a   Maritan, Amos ^c   Giacometti, Achille ^d   Tarboton, David G ^e   Rinaldo, Andrea ^f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^e Utah State University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELS; RIVER BASINS;

HACK'S LAW; RIVER BASIN;

FRACTALS; WATERSHEDS;

BASIN STRUCTURES; CONTRIBUTING AREAS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FRACTAL CHARACTER; FRACTAL CHARACTERISTICS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; SCALING INVARIANCE; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK;

LAMINATES;

EID: 0030302116     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR02397     Document Type: Article

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