Impact of stochastic fluctuations in storage-discharge relations on streamflow distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Suweis, S ^a   Bertuzzo, E ^a   Botter, G ^b   Porporato, A ^a,c   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^d   Rinaldo, A ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORED NOISE; DISCHARGE EQUATIONS; GAUSSIANS; GENERATION PROCESS; LINEAR RESERVOIRS; MACROSCOPIC EFFECTS; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; NOISE STRENGTH; NOISE-INDUCED PHENOMENA; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RAINFALL SEQUENCES; STOCHASTIC FLUCTUATION; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW DISTRIBUTION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL RESULT; WET AND DRY; STOCHASTIC RAINFALLS; STREAMFLOW GENERATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLVENTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STREAM FLOW;

FLOW PATTERN; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYSTERESIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RESERVOIR; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EID: 77949617238     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008038     Document Type: Article

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