Global-scale flow routing using a source-to-sink algorithm

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2197-2207

  Olivera, Francisco ^a   Famiglietti, James ^a   Asante, Kwabena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODEL; RIVER; WATER FLOW;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RUNOFF;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); RIVERS;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GLOBAL APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION CONTENTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 0033865542     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900113     Document Type: Article

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