Development of large scale gridded river networks from vector stream data

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1235-1248

  Olivera, Francisco ^a   Raina, Rajeev ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental hydrologic modeling; Global hydrologic modeling; Network tracing method; River networks; Surface water hydrology

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; HYDROLOGY; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WELLS;

NETWORK TRACING METHOD;

WATER RESOURCES;

FLOW PATTERN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RESOLUTION; STREAMFLOW; VECTOR;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0242490448     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb03705.x     Document Type: Article

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