Dissecting the effect of rainfall variability on the statistical structure of peak flows

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1508-1525

  Mandapaka, Pradeep V ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^a   Mantilla, Ricardo ^a   Gupta, Vijay K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Channel network; Peak flows; Rainfall variability; Scaling

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL NETWORK; FLOW DYNAMICS; HYDROGRAPHS; INTERMITTENCY; NEXRAD RADAR; PEAK FLOWS; POWER LAW; RAINFALL FIELDS; RAINFALL MODELS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; RIVER BASINS; RIVER NETWORK; RUNOFF GENERATION; SCALING; SCALING EXPONENT; SCALING STRUCTURE; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL SCALING; STATISTICAL STRUCTURES; WIDTH FUNCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW SIMULATION; RIVERS; SCALING LAWS; STORMS;

RAIN;

FLOW VELOCITY; PEAK FLOW; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; UNIT HYDROGRAPH;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WHITEWATER BASIN;

EID: 70249091398     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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