Geomorphic signatures on Brutsaert base flow recession analysis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5462-5472

  Mutzner, Raphaël ^a   Bertuzzo, Enrico ^a   Tarolli, Paolo ^b   Weijs, Steven V ^a   Nicotina, Ludovico ^a,c   Ceola, Serena ^a,d   Tomasic, Nevena ^a   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^e   Parlange, Marc B ^a   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

base flow; DEM; geomorphology; recession events; ungauged basins

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CATCHMENTS; DRAINAGE; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; SURVEYING;

BASEFLOWS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DOWNSTREAM DISTANCES; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; RECESSION ANALYSIS; RECESSION EVENTS; TIME-VARYING DISTRIBUTION; UNGAUGED BASINS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

BASEFLOW; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ECOHYDROLOGY; FLOW REGULATION; GAUGE; INFLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

FINGER LAKES; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883546164     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20417     Document Type: Article

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