A framework for broad-scale classification of hydrologic response units on the Boreal Plain: Is topography the last thing to consider?

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1705-1714

  Devito, K ^a   Creed, I ^b   Gan, T ^a   Mendoza, C ^a   Petrone, R ^c   Silins, U ^a   Smerdon, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITS; EVAPORATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER RESOURCES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; HYDROLOGIC INTERACTIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROL;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RUNOFF; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 20444464353     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5881     Document Type: Article

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