Large-scale river flow archives: Importance, current status and future needs

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1191-1200

  Hannah, David M ^a   Demuth, Siegfried ^b   van Lanen, Henny A J ^c   Looser, Ulrich ^d   Prudhomme, Christel ^e   Rees, Gwyn ^e   Stahl, Kerstin ^f,g   Tallaksen, Lena M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNESCO   (France)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; RIVER FLOW;

EID: 79952636131     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7794     Document Type: Article

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