Predicting wetted width in any river at any discharge

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 828-841

  Booker, D J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hydraulic geometry; Multilevel models; New zealand; River width

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT AREA; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; CHANNEL SLOPE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FIELD DATA; GAUGING STATIONS; HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY; LAND COVER; LIMITED DATA; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MODEL PREDICTION; MULTILEVEL MODEL; NEW ZEALAND; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP; PREDICTOR VARIABLES;

CATCHMENTS; FORECASTING; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

CATCHMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DATA SET; GEOMETRY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POWER LAW; PREDICTION; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER DISCHARGE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 77953156263     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1981     Document Type: Article

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