Development and application of a catchment similarity index for subsurface flow

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Lyon, Steve W ^a   Troch, Peter A ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL NETWORK; CHARACTERISTIC RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; HEADWATER CATCHMENT; HILLSLOPES; HYDROLOGIC PARAMETERS; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; REAL WORLD DATA; SCALE SIMILARITY; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SIMILARITY INDICES; SIMILARITY PARAMETER; SMALL CATCHMENT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROADS AND STREETS; RUNOFF; DIGITAL STORAGE;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; HILLSLOPE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77949616410     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008500     Document Type: Article

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