What mainly controls recession flows in river basins?

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-33

  Biswal, Basudev ^a,b   Nagesh Kumar, D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Active drainage network; Dupuit Boussinesq aquifer; Power law; Recession curves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894089597     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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