Articles | Volume 8, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-431-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-431-2020
Research article
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02 Jun 2020
Research article |  | 02 Jun 2020

Computing water flow through complex landscapes – Part 2: Finding hierarchies in depressions and morphological segmentations

Richard Barnes, Kerry L. Callaghan, and Andrew D. Wickert

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