The Growth of Hydrological Understanding: Technologies, Ideas, and Societal Needs Shape the Field

Water Resources Research

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 8137-8146

  Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a,b   Blöschl, Günter ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

history of hydrology; hydrologic understanding; ideas; societal needs; technologies

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECHNOLOGY; WATER RESOURCES;

HYDROLOGIC UNDERSTANDING; IDEAS; INSPIRATIONAL LEADERS; PAPER TRACKS; REPEATED CYCLE; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SOCIETAL NEEDS; TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY;

HYDROLOGY;

EID: 85031395913     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017WR021396     Document Type: Note

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