Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4277-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4277-2014
Research article
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31 Oct 2014
Research article |  | 31 Oct 2014

Transferring the concept of minimum energy dissipation from river networks to subsurface flow patterns

S. Hergarten, G. Winkler, and S. Birk

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