Articles | Volume 17, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3141-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3141-2013
Research article
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05 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 05 Aug 2013

Maximum entropy production: can it be used to constrain conceptual hydrological models?

M. C. Westhoff and E. Zehe

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