Spatial scaling properties of annual streamflow in the United States
作者:
RICHARDM. VOGEL,
A. SANKARASUBRAMANIAN,
期刊:
Hydrological Sciences Journal
(Taylor Available online 2000)
卷期:
Volume 45,
issue 3
页码: 465-476
ISSN:0262-6667
年代: 2000
DOI:10.1080/02626660009492342
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The spatial scaling properties of annual average streamflow is examined using records from 1 433 river basins across the continental United States. The log-linear relationship ln(E[Qri]) = a + brln(Ai) is representative throughout the United States, where E[Qri] represents the expectation of the rth moment of annual streamflow at site i, and Airepresents drainage area. The scaling model parameters arand brfollow nearly perfect linear relationships ar= rα and br= rβ throughout the continental United States. We conclude that the probability distribution of annual streamflow follows simple scaling relationships in all regions of the United States. In temperate regions where climate is relatively homogeneous, scale alone describes most of the variability in the moments of annual streamflow. In the more climatically heterogeneous regions, such as in the Upper Colorado and Missouri river basins, scale alone is a poor predictor of the moments of annual flow.
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