Digital elevation analysis for distributed hydrological modeling: Reducing scale dependence in effective hydraulic conductivity values

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2097-2101

  Saulnier, Georges Marie ^a   Beven, Keith ^b   Obled, Charles ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; MODELLING; TOPOGRAPHY;

DATA PROCESSING; ELEVATION DATA; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; TOPOGRAPHY MODEL;

EID: 0030749013     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR00652     Document Type: Article

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