A stochastic model of streamflow for urbanized basins

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1984-2001

  Mejía, Alfonso ^a   Daly, Edoardo ^b   Rossel, Florian ^a   Jovanovic, Tijana ^a   Gironás, Jorge ^c,d  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable CONICYT FONDAP 15110020   (Chile)

Author keywords

ecohydrology; flow duration curves; stochastic dynamics; urbanization gradient

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; RAIN; STOCHASTIC MODELS; URBAN GROWTH;

ECO-HYDROLOGY; ECOSYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY; FLOW DURATION CURVE; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; STREAMFLOW REGIMES; URBANIZATION GRADIENTS; URBANIZATION LEVELS;

STREAM FLOW;

EID: 84895418538     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014834     Document Type: Article

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