Predicting river width, depth and velocity at ungauged sites in England and Wales using multilevel models

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 4049-4057

  Booker, D J ^a,b   Dunbar, M J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hydraulic geometry; Hydraulics; Mixed effects; Multilevel modelling; River

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; STATISTICAL TESTS; WATER;

CATCHMENT AREAS; CHANNEL STRUCTURES; DATA AVAILABILITIES; DATA SETS; ENGLAND; HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY; MEAN VELOCITIES; MESO-SCALE; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; MIXED-EFFECTS; MULTI-LEVEL MODELS; MULTILEVEL MODELLING; RIVER DISCHARGES; SPATIAL SCALE; STREAMWISE DIRECTIONS;

HYDRAULICS;

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOW VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 61849090813     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7007     Document Type: Article

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