The role of catchment scale and landscape characteristics for runoff generation of boreal streams

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 344, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 198-209

  Laudon, Hjalmar ^a   Sjöblom, Viktor ^a   Buffam, Ishi ^b   Seibert, Jan ^c   Mörth, Magnus ^c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal; Hydrograph separation; Landscape characteristics; Oxygen 18; Scale; Snow melt

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

BOREAL; BOREAL STREAMS; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTICS; LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS; STREAM MONITORING;

CATCHMENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENTS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FORESTED CATCHMENT; HEADWATER; HYDROGRAPH; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; SOIL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; KRYCKLAN RIVER; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; VASTERBOTTEN;

EID: 34548663910     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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