Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-65-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-65-2017
Research article
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04 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 04 Jan 2017

Event-scale power law recession analysis: quantifying methodological uncertainty

David N. Dralle, Nathaniel J. Karst, Kyriakos Charalampous, Andrew Veenstra, and Sally E. Thompson

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Short summary
The streamflow recession is the period following rainfall during which flow declines. This paper examines a common method of recession analysis and identifies sensitivity of the technique's results to necessary, yet subjective, methodological choices. The results have implications for hydrology, sediment and solute transport, and geomorphology, as well as for testing numerous hydrologic theories which predict the mathematical form of the recession.