Reconstruction of subgrid-scale topographic variability and its effect upon the spatial structure of three-dimensional river flow

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Casas, M A ^a,b   Lane, S N ^c   Hardy, R J ^c   Benito, G ^a   Whiting, P J ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SCALE; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STEADY STATE SOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC COMPLEXITY; TOPOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY; WYOMING , UNITED STATES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77951021412     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007756     Document Type: Article

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