The geomorphic structure of Peak Flows: Rigon, D'Odorico and Bertoldi

This is a long-awaited paper, since the theory it tries to explain has been implemnted from a few year in JGrass , and successfully applied to several case study.

This paper hase been submitted to HESSD for open discussion, and can be found here:

Peak Flow paper

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