Topographic, pedologic and climatic interactions influencing streamflow generation at multiple catchment scales

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3858-3874

  Ali, Geneviève ^a   Tetzlaff, Doerthe ^a   Soulsby, Chris ^a   McDonnell, Jeffrey J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical redundancy analysis; Dominant flow pathways (DFPs); End member mixing; Gran alkalinity; Multiple linear regression; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; CATCHMENT SCALE; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; CUMULATIVE PRECIPITATION; DEEP GROUNDWATERS; DRAINABILITY; FLOW PATHWAYS; FRACTIONAL AREA; GAIN INSIGHT; HYDROCLIMATIC CONDITIONS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INTERNAL COMPLEXITY; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; NEAR-SURFACE; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION MODEL; RUNOFF GENERATION; SCOTLAND; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRACER STUDY; VARIATION PARTITIONING;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LINEAR REGRESSION; MIXING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PH; REDUNDANCY; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS;

ALKALINITY; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MIXING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACER;

EID: 84870512910     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8416     Document Type: Article

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