Ecohydrological model of flow duration curves and annual minima

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Botter, Gianluca ^a   Zanardo, Stefano ^a   Porporato, Amilcare ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^c,e   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GROUNDWATER; PROBABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; DAILY STREAMFLOWS; ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGICAL FEATURES; FLOW DURATION; FLOW DURATION CURVES; PHYSICALLY BASED; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; RIVER BASINS; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; STREAMFLOW VARIABILITY; TIME SCALING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ECOHYDROLOGY; FLOW MODELING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER BASIN; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53849125052     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006814     Document Type: Article

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