A new method for the determination of flow directions and upslope areas in grid digital elevation models

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Water Resources Research

• Publication date

  1997-02-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1029/96WR03137
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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