Quantifying space-time dynamics of flood event types

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 394, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 213-229

  Viglione, Alberto ^a   Chirico, Giovanni Battista ^b   Komma, Jürgen ^a   Woods, Ross ^c   Borga, Marco ^d   Blöschl, Günter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Catchment response; Correlation; Flood typology; Runoff coefficient; Runoff generation; Storm movement

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; CHANNEL ROUTING; CORRELATION; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD PEAK; FLOOD RUNOFF; HILLSLOPES; HYDROGRAPHS; JOINT EFFECT; RAIN EVENTS; RAIN-ON-SNOW; RUNOFF COEFFICIENT; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; RUNOFF GENERATION; SNOWMELT; SPACE-TIME DYNAMICS; SPACE-TIME VARIABILITY; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

CATCHMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; RAIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STORMS;

RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; FLOOD; HILLSLOPE; HYDROGRAPH; MAGNITUDE; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TYPOLOGY;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 78049281845     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.05.041     Document Type: Article

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