Effects of excess rainfall on the temporal variability of observed peak-discharge power laws

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1240-1253

  Furey, Peter R ^a,b   Gupta, Vijay K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Colorado Research Associates ^*  (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; Rainfall runoff relationship; Scaling; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

PEAK DISCHARGE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF RELATIONSHIP;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS);

FLOODING; PEAK DISCHARGE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

GOODWIN CREEK; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 26844464345     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.03.014     Document Type: Article

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