Land2Sea database of river drainage basin sizes, annual water discharges, and suspended sediment fluxes

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Peucker Ehrenbrink, Bernhard ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Database; Drainage basin area; River; Runoff; Suspended sediment; Water discharge

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350663141     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002356     Document Type: Article

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