A reformulation of Horton's laws for large river networks in terms of statistical self-similarity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2763-2777

  Peckham, Scott D ^a   Gupta, Vijay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; RIVER SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

TOPOLOGY;

BIFURCATION STRUCTURES; FIRST MOMENTS; HORTON-STRAHLER ORDERING; LARGE RIVERS; RANDOM TOPOLOGY; RIVER NETWORK; SELF-SIMILARITIES; STATISTICAL SELF SIMILARITY;

RIVERS;

EID: 0032827268     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900154     Document Type: Article

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