A Power Function Method for Estimating Base Flow

GroundWater

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 442-451

  Lott, Darline A ^a   Stewart, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BASE FLOW SEPARATION; DISSOLVED SOLIDS; HIGH-FLOW EVENTS; HYDROGRAPH SEPARATION; MASS-BALANCE METHOD; POWER FUNCTIONS; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE;

FLOW SEPARATION; FUNCTIONS; GAGES; STREAM FLOW;

AERODYNAMICS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BASEFLOW; BASIN; CALIBRATION; DISCHARGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HYDROGRAPH; MASS BALANCE;

CALIBRATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RIVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

CALIBRATION; FLORIDA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84876813930     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00980.x     Document Type: Article

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