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04 Jan 2017
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Event-scale power law recession analysis: quantifying methodological uncertainty
University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, USA
Nathaniel J. Karst
Babson College, Department of Mathematics, Wellesley, MA, USA
Kyriakos Charalampous
University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, USA
University of Bristol, Department of Civil Engineering, Bristol, UK
Andrew Veenstra
University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, USA
Sally E. Thompson
University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, USA
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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.
The streamflow recession is the period following rainfall during which flow declines. This paper...
