Channel network simulation models compared with data from the Ashley River, New Zealand

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3875-3890

  Ibbitt, Richard P ^a   Willgoose, Garry R ^b   Duncan, Maurice J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033461170     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900245     Document Type: Article

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