A new time-space accounting scheme to predict stream water residence time and hydrograph source components at the watershed scale

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Sayama, Takahiro ^a,b   McDonnell, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; CAPTURE FLOW; CATCHMENT PROPERTIES; DESCRIPTORS; DISTRIBUTION CONTROL; DOMINANT PROCESS; FIELD DATA; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; LEARNING TOOL; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; PHYSICALLY BASED; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF PROCESS; RESIDENCE TIME; SOIL DEPTH; STREAM WATER; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TIME-SPACE; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS; WATER FRACTION; WATER SOURCE; WATERSHED SCALE;

CATCHMENTS; DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR; WATERSHEDS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; HYDROGRAPH; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RESIDENCE TIME; SOIL DEPTH; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; WATERSHED;

EID: 69249138233     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007549     Document Type: Article

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