A macroscale hydrological data set of river flow routing parameters for the Amazon Basin

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Costa, Marcos Heil ^a   Oliveira, Carlos Henrique C ^a   Andrade, Ricardo G ^a   Bustamante, Thiago R ^a   Silva, Fabrício A ^a   Coe, Michael T ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

1833 Hydrology: Hydroclimatology; 1860 Hydrology: Runoff and streamflow; 3322 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Land atmosphere interactions; 9360 Information Related to Geographic Region: South America; Amazonia; Macroscale hydrology; River network

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448982929     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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