An investigation into the physical causes of scaling and heterogeneity of regional flood frequency

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1045-1059

  Robinson, Justin S ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SCALING;

DISCHARGE DATA; FLOOD FREQUENCY; HETEROGENEITY; SCALING;

USA, APPALACHIANS;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SCALING LAWS;

CATCHMENT RESPONSE TIME; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; FLOOD FREQUENCY MODELS; REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCIES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RUNOFF GENERATION PROCESS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY;

CATCHMENTS;

EID: 0030619030     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR00044     Document Type: Article

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