A synthesis of space-time variability in storm response: Rainfall, runoff generation, and routing

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2469-2485

  Woods, Ross ^a,b   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; STORMS; WATERSHEDS; CATCHMENTS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CATCHMENTS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CATCHMENT RESPONSE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE PROPERTIES; RUNOFF GENERATION; SPACE-TIME VARIABILITY;

HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STORMWATER;

EID: 0032841266     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900014     Document Type: Article

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