Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  McDonnell, J J ^a,b   Sivapalan, M ^c   Vache K ^d   Dunn, S ^e   Grant, G ^f   Haggerty, R ^b   Hinz, C ^g   Hooper, R ^h   Kirchner, J ⁱ   Roderick, M L ^j   Selker, J ^b   Weiler, M ^k  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^h Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Sciences Inc ^*  (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

PROCESS DYNAMICS; WATERSHED SCIENCE;

PROCESS CONTROL;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

COMPLEXITY; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; WATERSHED;

EID: 36649011805     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005467     Document Type: Review

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