Is representative elementary area defined by a simple mixing of variable small streams in headwater catchments?

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 666-671

  Asano, Yuko ^a   Uchida, Taro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Public Works Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dissolved SiO2 concentration; Headwater catchment; Representative elementary area concept; Scale; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK GEOLOGY; CATCHMENT AREA; DISSOLVED SILICA; FIELD DATA; FIELD STUDIES; FLOW CONDITION; FLOWPATH; HEADWATER CATCHMENT; HILLSLOPES; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RANDOM FIELDS; SAMPLING LOCATION; SMALL STREAMS; SOIL TYPES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; STREAM CHANNELS; STREAM ORDER; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; GEOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; LAND USE; MIXING; RUNOFF; SILICA; WATER;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUNOFF; SIMULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM CHANNEL;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; SHIGA; TANAKAMI MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77949644508     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7589     Document Type: Article

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