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dc.contributor.authorPISTOCCHI Albertoen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2007-08-29en_GB
dc.date.available2006-11-21en_GB
dc.date.created2006-11-21en_GB
dc.date.issued2006en_GB
dc.date.submitted2006-11-16en_GB
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a geo-exploratory analysis carried out using publicly accessible data to estimate river channel width and mean lake depth. These two parameters, combined with other more readily available information, are key in many environmental assessment applications such as sedimentological and ecological studies, and the prediction of surface water residence times.
For river width, runoff estimates have been used to produce a European map of mean annual discharge based on the flow accumulation computed for the GTOPO30 digital elevation model (DEM). A regression equation is fitted to predict river width as a function of river discharge. For lake depth, a landscape roughness index has been calculated on the GTOPO30 DEM. Based on this index, a regression equation predicts lake depth, allowing to populate the existing geographic databases with information on estimated depth.
Using these models for river width and lake depth it is possible to compute “representative” values of..
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dc.description.sponsorshipJRC.H.5 - Rural, water and ecosystem resourcesen_GB
dc.format.mediumPrinten_GB
dc.identifier.citationPistocchi A. European Hydraulic Geometries for Continental Scale Environmental Modelling. JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 329; 2006. p. 553-567. JRC33451en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.03.009en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC33451en_GB
dc.languageENGen_GB
dc.publisherELSEVIERen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJRC33451en_GB
dc.titleEuropean Hydraulic Geometries for Continental Scale Environmental Modellingen_GB
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