Downstream hydraulic geometry relations: 2. Calibration and testing

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Singh, Vijay P ^a   Yang, Chih Ted ^b,c   Deng, Zhi Qiang ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic equilibrium; Hydraulic geometry; Maximum entropy; Minimum energy dissipation; Regime equations; Stream power

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DATA REDUCTION; HYDRAULICS; STREAM FLOW;

DATA SETS; SPLIT SAMPLING;

WATER RESOURCES;

CALIBRATION; CHANNEL FLOW; GEOMETRICAL EFFECT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; STREAM;

CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; STREAM CHANNEL; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 1242299682     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002498     Document Type: Article

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