Examining individual recession events instead of a data cloud: Using a modified interpretation of dQ/dt-Q streamflow recession in glaciated watersheds to better inform models of low flow

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 434-435, Issue , 2012, Pages 46-54

  Shaw, Stephen B ^a   Riha, Susan J ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

Boussinesq Equation; Low flows; Streamflow recession

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; AQUIFER PROPERTIES; BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; DATA CLOUDS; DATA POINTS; GAINING INSIGHTS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LARGE WATERSHEDS; LOW FLOW; LOWER BOUNDS; NEW YORK STATE; RATE OF CHANGE; RECESSION CURVES; RECESSION RATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME-PERIODS;

AQUIFERS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

WATERSHEDS;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CURVATURE; DATABASE; DISCHARGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; GLACIATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LOW FLOW; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859104460     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.02.034     Document Type: Article

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