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Drainage

Drainage is a hydrological process, categorized under subsurface water management, that is differentiated by the controlled removal of excess water from saturated or unsaturated porous media, including soils and geological formations, through natural or engineered systems to regulate pore-fluid pressure, maintain geotechnical stability, and optimize agricultural or environmental conditions.

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Properties of Porous Media Affecting Fluid Flow

R. H. Brooks, A. T. Corey · Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division · 1966 · 2.3K citations

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Drainage‐basin characteristics

Robert Horton · Transactions American Geophysical Union · 1932 · 2.3K citations

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Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins

David R. Montgomery, John M. Buffington · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1997 · 1.9K citations

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Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017

Eric Rignot, J. Mouginot, B. Scheuchl et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Quantitative analysis of land surface topography

Lyle W. Zevenbergen, Colin R. Thorne · Earth Surface Processes and Landforms · 1987 · 1.6K citations

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  1. RW
    R. W. Skaggs

    North Carolina State University, United States

    25 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. RG
    Rajesh Gupta

    Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India

    20 publications · 689 citations

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  3. SV
    Shyam Varadarajulu

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

    13 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. SS
    Surinder Singh Rana

    Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India

    12 publications · 347 citations

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  5. MJ
    Matthew J. Helmers

    Iowa State University, United States

    13 publications · 512 citations

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  1. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    40 h-index

    138 publications

    7.3K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    36 h-index

    172 publications

    9.3K citations

  3. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    30 h-index

    84 publications

    6.1K citations

  4. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    30 h-index

    125 publications

    9.5K citations

  5. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    30 h-index

    125 publications

    7.3K citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    29 h-index

    85 publications

    6.5K citations

  7. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    29 h-index

    86 publications

    4.4K citations

  8. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    28 h-index

    142 publications

    7.9K citations

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  1. Water Resources Research

    180 publications · 18.1K citations

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 481 publications · 15K citations

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  3. British journal of surgery

    BJS · 92 publications · 5.5K citations

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  4. Hydrological Processes

    80 publications · 5.9K citations

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  5. Annals of Surgery

    55 publications · 5.6K citations

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