Comparative study of ecohydrological streamflow probability distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Ceola, Serena ^a   Botter, Gianluca ^b   Bertuzzo, Enrico ^a   Porporato, Amilcare ^c   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^d   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CLIMATIC REGIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ECOHYDROLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; FIELD DATA; FLOW DURATION CURVE; GEOMORPHIC CONTEXTS; HYDROLOGIC REGIME; IN-FIELD; MODEL ACCURACY; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NONLINEAR APPROACH; NONLINEAR CHARACTERS; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; SCALE MANAGEMENT; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS;

BELLS; CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STREAM FLOW;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATIC REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCHARGE; ECOHYDROLOGY; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAMFLOW; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

ITALY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956497697     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009102     Document Type: Article

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