Flood timescales: Understanding the interplay of climate and catchment processes through comparative hydrology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Gaál, Ladislav ^a   Szolgay, Ján ^a   Kohnová, Silvia ^a   Parajka, Juraj ^b   Merz, Ralf ^c   Viglione, Alberto ^b   Blöschl, Günter ^b  

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE AREAS; ANTECEDENT SOIL MOISTURE; AS-SOILS; CATCHMENT AREA; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; CLIMATIC CONTROLS; CONVECTIVE STORMS; DEEP SOILS; FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD DURATION; FLOOD EVENT; FLOOD PEAK; FLOOD PLAINS; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; LOWLAND CATCHMENT; RAIN-ON-SNOW; SNOWMELT; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; TIME PARAMETER; TIME-SCALES; WEATHERED ROCKS;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GEOLOGY; PROCESS CONTROL; RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS;

CATCHMENTS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOOD CONTROL; GEOLOGY; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; SNOWMELT; SOIL MOISTURE; TIMESCALE;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84859920777     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011509     Document Type: Article

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