Power law catchment-scale recessions arising from heterogeneous linear small-scale dynamics

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Harman, C J ^a   Sivapalan, M ^a,b,c   Kumar, P ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; CATCHMENT PROPERTIES; CATCHMENT SCALE; DEGREE OF NON-LINEARITY; HILLSLOPES; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; LINEAR FLOW MODEL; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; POWER LAW; RECESSION CURVES; RESEARCH WATERSHEDS; SMALL-SCALE DYNAMICS; SOIL MANTLE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SOILS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HILLSLOPE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; PERMEABILITY; POWER LAW; RECHARGE; SOIL PROFILE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EID: 69249113975     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007392     Document Type: Article

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