Stochastic modeling of transect-to-transect properties of Great Basin rangeland streams

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 853-864

  Myers, Thomas J ^a   Swanson, Sherman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; MARKOV PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BETA DISTRIBUTIONS; CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; GREAT BASIN; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; OBSERVED DATA; TWO PARAMETER;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

POOL GEOMETRY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STREAM;

EID: 0030619015     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR04015     Document Type: Article

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