Shopping for hydrologically representative connectivity metrics in a humid temperate forested catchment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Ali, Geneviève A ^a   Roy, André G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT MOISTURE; CLASSIFICATION TOOL; FORESTED CATCHMENTS; FORESTED ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; HYDROLOGIC PROPERTIES; INDICATOR PATTERNS; MACRO-STATE; SOIL DEPTH; SPATIAL LINKAGES; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; STORM FLOW; STREAM CHANNELS; TIME INVARIANTS;

HYDRAULICS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

CATCHMENTS;

FORESTED CATCHMENT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; RANGELAND; RUNOFF; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; STORM SURGE; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATE FOREST;

CANADA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 77953259930     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009442     Document Type: Article

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