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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-355-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-355-2022
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24 Jan 2022
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Hydrology without dimensions

Amilcare Porporato

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Applying dimensional analysis to the partitioning of water and soil on terrestrial landscapes reveals their dominant environmental controls. We discuss how the dryness index and the storage index affect the long-term rainfall partitioning, the key nonlinear control of the dryness index in global datasets of weathering rates, and the existence of new macroscopic relations among average variables in landscape evolution statistics with tantalizing analogies with turbulent fluctuations.
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