Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-225-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-225-2013
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22 Jan 2013
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Thermodynamics, maximum power, and the dynamics of preferential river flow structures at the continental scale

A. Kleidon, E. Zehe, U. Ehret, and U. Scherer

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