Hortonian scaling and effect of cutoffs on statistics of self-affine river networks

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Neuman, Shlomo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE FLUCTUATIONS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BASIN BOUNDARY; CHANNEL LENGTH; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; DATA SUPPORT; DRAINAGE AREA; FINITE SIZE; FLOW DISTANCE; FRACTAL PROPERTIES; HURST EXPONENTS; NETWORK DENSITY; NEW MODEL; PLANAR STRUCTURE; RANDOM FUNCTIONS; RIVER BASINS; RIVER NETWORK; SCALE DEPENDENCY; SCALING RELATIONS; SELF-AFFINE; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; STEADY STATE; SUBBASINS; THEORETICAL BASIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACES; VEGETATIVE COVER;

SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

HORTONIA;

EID: 77954370407     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008124     Document Type: Article

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