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Measure of three‐dimensional drainage basin form
Author(s) -
Anderson Malcolm G.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr009i002p00378
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , structural basin , autocorrelation , drainage basin , geology , surface (topology) , hydrology (agriculture) , flow (mathematics) , mathematics , computer science , data mining , cartography , geometry , geography , geomorphology , geotechnical engineering , statistics
When investigators have wanted surrogates for basin form in connection with river flow characteristics, they have frequently resorted to measuring aspects of the basin from a map, intuitively reasoning that they afford a suitable description of form. Since this reasoning is not necessarily so, a model is derived that generates the three‐dimensional form of a basin by using six coefficients derived from map analysis. The model reproduces correctly the important characteristics of surface roughness and spatial autocorrelation.