Scaling frequency of channel-forming flows in snowmelt-dominated streams

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Segura, Catalina ^a,b   Pitlick, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL FLOW; BANKFULL; BANKFULL DISCHARGE; BROKEN POWER LAW; CHANNEL GEOMETRY; DRAINAGE AREA; FLOW FREQUENCIES; FREE PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUGING STATIONS; HEAD WATERS; HYDROGRAPHS; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; MULTISCALING BEHAVIORS; PRECIPITATION AND RUNOFF; REGIONAL MODEL; SCALING PROPERTIES; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SNOWMELT; STUDY SITES;

RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

CHANNEL FLOW; DIURNAL VARIATION; GEOMETRY; POWER LAW; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SNOWMELT;

COLORADO; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954401635     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008336     Document Type: Article

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