Scaling relationships for event water contributions and transit times in small-forested catchments in Eastern Quebec

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Segura, C ^a   James, A L ^b   Lazzati, D ^a   Roulet, N T ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT MOISTURE; BEST MODEL; CATCHMENT SIZE; COMPLEX DATASETS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DATA SETS; EFFECTIVE RAINFALL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; HYDROGRAPH SEPARATION; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; INTERMEDIATE COMPLEXITY; LINEAR RELATION; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; MODEL REPRESENTATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RAINFALL RUNOFF; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STABLE ISOTOPE TRACERS; STORM INTENSITY; TRANSIT TIME; UNIT HYDROGRAPH;

ISOTOPES; MODEL STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RUNOFF; THUNDERSTORMS;

CATCHMENTS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; FORESTED CATCHMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINSTORM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER; UNIT HYDROGRAPH;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84864069881     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011890     Document Type: Article

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