On the impact of rainfall patterns on the hydrologic response

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Nicotina L ^a   Alessi Celegon, E ^a   Rinaldo, A ^a,b   Marani, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; RUNOFF; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BASIN AREAS; COARSE-GRAINED; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DIFFERENT SIZES; HILLSLOPE; HILLSLOPES; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; JENSEN-SHANNON DIVERGENCES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS; RAINFALL FIELDS; RAINFALL INTENSITIES; RAINFALL PATTERNS; RESIDENCE TIME; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; TIME INTERVALS; TOTAL RESIDENCE TIME; TRAVEL TIME; WATER PARCELS;

RAIN;

HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RAINFALL; RESIDENCE TIME; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 59649093431     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006654     Document Type: Article

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