Hack's law
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hack-s-law-203-12816446
title:
Hack's law
text:
Hack's law is an empirical relationship between the length of streams and the area of their basins. If L is the length of the longest stream in a basin, and A is the area of the basin, then Hack's law may be written as
- L = C A h for some constant C where the exponent h is slightly less than 0.6 in most basins. h varies slightly from region to region and slightly decreases for larger basins. In addition to the catchment-scales, Hack's law was observed on unchanneled small-scale surfaces whe
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Hydrological relationship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack%27s_law
date created:
2006-06-30T21:33:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T22:12:21Z
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