Global system of rivers: Its role in organizing continental land mass and defining land-to-ocean linkages

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 599-621

  Vorosmatry C J ^a   Fekete, B M ^a   Meybeck, M ^b   Lammers, R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DRAINAGE BASIN; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RIVER SYSTEM; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84868375544     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999gb900092     Document Type: Article

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