Stochastic recession rates and the probabilistic structure of stream flows

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Botter, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION FUNCTION; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; HIGHER ORDER; INTERMITTENCY; LANDSCAPE ATTRIBUTES; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; PROBABILISTIC STRUCTURES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RAINFALL FORCING; RECESSION RATE; STOCHASTICITY; TIME CONSTANTS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WEAK RANDOMNESS;

AUTOCORRELATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RAIN; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AUTOCORRELATION; CORRELATION; EQUILIBRIUM; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 78650287439     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009217     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Basu, N. B., P. S. C. Rao, H. E. Winzeler, S. Kumar, P. Owens, and V. Merwade (2010), Parsimonious modeling of hydrologic responses in engineered watersheds: Structural heterogeneity versus functional homo-geneity, Water Resour. Res., 46, W04501, doi:10.1029/2009WR007803.
2. Botter, G., A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, and A. Rinaldo (2007), Basin-scale soil moisture dynamics and the probabilistic characterization of carrier hydrologic flows: Slow, leaching-prone components of the hydrologic response, Water Resour. Res., 43, W02417, doi:10.1029/2006WR005043. (Pubitemid 46502884)
3. Botter, G., S. Zanardo, A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, and A. Rinaldo (2008), Ecohydrological model of flow duration curves and annual min-ima, Water Resour. Res., 44, W08418, doi:10.1029/2008WR006814.
4. Botter, G., A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, and A. Rinaldo (2009a), Non-linear storage-discharge relations and catchment streamflow regimes, Water Resour. Res., 45, W10427, doi:10.1029/2008WR007658.
5. Botter, G., E. Milan, E. Bertuzzo, S. Zanardo, M. Marani, and A. Rinaldo (2009b), Inferences from catchment-scale tracer circulation experiments, J. Hydrol., 369, 368-380, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.02.012
6. Botter, G., S. Basso, A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, and A. Rinaldo (2010), Natural streamflow regime alterations: The damming of the Piave river basin (Italy), Water Resour. Res., 46, W06522, doi:10.1029/2009WR008523.
7. Brutsaert, W., and J. L. Nieber (1977), Regionalized drought flow hydro-graphs from a mature glaciated plateau, Water Resour. Res., 13, 637-648.
8. Ceola, S., G. Botter, E. Bertuzzo, A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, and A. Rinaldo (2010), Comparative study of ecohydrological streamflow probability distributions, Water Resour. Res., 46, W09502, doi:10.1029/2010WR009102.
9. Chow, V. T., D. R. Maidment, and L. W. Mays (1988), Applied Hydrology, McGraw Hill, New York.
10. Clark, M. P., D. E. Rupp, R.A. Woods, H. J. Tromp-van Meerveld, N. E. Peters, and J. E. Freer (2009), Consistency between hydrological models and field observations: Linking processes at the hillslope scale to hydro-logical responses at the watershed scale, Hydrol. Processes, 23, 311-319.
11. Eliazar, I. (2007), Shot noise systems with random relaxations, Phys. Rev. E, 76, 041128, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE76.041128.
12. Furey, P. R., and V. K. Gupta (2001), A physically based filter for separat-ing base flow from streamflow time series, Water Resour. Res., 37, 2709-2722, doi:10.1029/2001WR000243. (Pubitemid 32996666)
13. Harman, C. J., M. Sivapalan, and P. Kumar (2009), Power law catchment-scale recessions arising from heterogeneous linear small-scale dynamics, Water Resour. Res., 45, W09404, doi:10.1029/2008WR007392.
14. Hurst, H. E. (1951), Long term storage capacities of reservoirs, Trans. Am. Soc. Civ. Eng., 116, 776-808.
15. Kingman, J. F. C. (1993), Poisson Processes, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, U. K.
16. Kirchner, J. W. (2009), Catchments as simple dynamical systems: Catch-ment characterization, rainfall-runoff modeling, and doing hydrology backward, Water Resour. Res., 45, W02429, doi:10.1029/2008WR006912.
17. Koutsoyiannis, D. (2003), Climate change, the Hurst phenomenon, and hydrological statistics, Hydrol. Sci. J., 48(1), 3-24.
18. Koutsoyiannis, D., and A. Montanari (2007), Statistical analysis of hydro-climatic time series: Uncertainty and insights, Water Resour. Res., 43, W05429, doi:10.1029/2006WR005592. (Pubitemid 46998230)
19. Mandelbrot, B. B., and J. R. Wallis (1968), Noah, Joseph, and operational hydrology, Water Resour. Res., 4, 909-918.
20. Mandelbrot, B. B., and J. R. Wallis (1969), Robustness of the rescaled range R/S in the measurement of noncyclic long run statistical depen-dence, Water Resour. Res., 5, 967-988.
21. Manfreda, S. (2008), Runoff generation dynamics within a humid river basin, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 8, 1349-1357, doi:10.5194/nhess-8-1349- 2008.
22. Manfreda, S., and M. Fiorentino (2008) A stochastic approach for the description of the water balance dynamics in a river basin, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 1189-1200, doi:10.5194/hess-12-1189-2008.
23. Montanari, A. (2003), Long-range dependence in hydrology, in Theory and Applications of Long-Range Dependence, edited by P. Doukhan et al., pp. 461-472, Springer, New York.
24. Porporato, A., E. Daly, and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe (2004), Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change, Am. Nat., 164(5), 625-632.
25. Rinaldo, A., E. Bertuzzo, G. Botter, T. Settin, A. Uccelli, and M. Marani (2006), Transport at basin scales: 1. Theoretical framework, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 19-29.
26. Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., A. Porporato, L. Ridolfi, V. Isham, and D. Cox (1999), Probabilistic modelling of water balance at a point: The role of climate soil and vegetation, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A, 455, 3789-3805.
27. Rupp, D. E., and J. S. Selker (2006), Information, artifacts, and noise in dQ/dt-Q recession analysis, Adv. Water Resour., 29(2), 154-160.
28. Suweis, S., E. Bertuzzo, G. Botter, A. Porporato, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, and A. Rinaldo (2010), Impact of stochastic fluctuations in storage-discharge relations on streamflow distributions, Water Resour. Res., 46, W03517, doi:10.1029/2009WR008038.
29. van Kampen, N. G. (1981), Stochastic Processes in Physics and Chemistry, North Holland, Amsterdam.
30. Wagener, T., M. Sivapalan, P. A. Troch, B. L. McGlynn, C. J. Harman, H. V. Gupta, P. Kumar, P. S. C. Rao, N. B. Basu, and J. S. Wilson (2010), The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world, Water Resour. Res., 46, W05301, doi:10.1029/2009WR008906.