Nonlinear storage-discharge relations and catchment streamflow regimes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Botter, Gianluca ^a   Porporato, Amilcare ^b,c   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^d   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BASIN SCALE; CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY; DEGREE OF NON-LINEARITY; DURATION CURVE; DYNAMIC STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOW DURATION CURVE; GEOMORPHIC PARAMETERS; HYDROLOGIC FEATURES; LINEAR RESERVOIRS; MONOTONOUSLY DECREASING; NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POWER LAW; RAINFALL REGIME; RIVER BASINS; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC FRAMEWORK; STORAGE VOLUMES; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TIME-SCALES;

GROUNDWATER; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RUNOFF; SIMULATORS; SOIL MOISTURE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 72149121538     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007658     Document Type: Article

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