Flooding dynamics on the lower Amazon floodplain: 2. Seasonal and interannual hydrological variability

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 635-649

  Rudorff, Conrado M ^a   Melack, John M ^a   Bates, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon River floodplain; hydrology; inundation modeling; river floodplain discharge; water balance

Indexed keywords

AMAZON RIVER-FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL VARIABILITY; INUNDATION MODELING; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL OVERLAND FLOWS; WATER BALANCE; WATER BALANCE COMPONENTS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); HYDROLOGY; RIVERS;

FLOODS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DISCHARGE; FLOOD WAVE; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW MODELING; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER BUDGET;

AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 84896714760     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014714     Document Type: Article

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