Establishing a Multi-scale Stream Gaging Network in the Whitewater River Basin, Kansas, USA

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3641-3664

  Clayton, Jordan A ^a   Kean, Jason W ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel network; Rating curve; Stream gaging; Whitewater River

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL NETWORK; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DENSE NETWORK; DISCHARGE ESTIMATION; DRAINAGE BASIN; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOODPLAIN MORPHOLOGY; LOW FLOW; MULTISCALES; OVERBANK FLOW; RATING CURVE; RIVER BASINS; STABLE CHANNELS; STREAM GAGES; STREAM GAGING; VEGETATED FLOODPLAIN; WHITEWATER RIVER;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; GAGING; HYDRAULICS; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS);

DRAINAGE BASIN; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; OVERBANK FLOW; RATING CURVE; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; STREAMFLOW;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; WHITEWATER RIVER;

EID: 84755161358     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9624-x     Document Type: Article

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