ABSTRACT
A body of water moving over Earth’s surface in a network of natural channels such as brooks, creeks, or rivers is called streamow, a term that is often interchangeable in use with discharge or runoff. Water in stream channels comes from one or all of four components:
• Precipitation intercepted by stream channels • Overland ow (surface runoff) • Interow (subsurface runoff) • Baseow (groundwater runoff)
It is the result of the integral effects of thermal, topographic, geological, edaphic, and vegetal factors acting upon storm events in a watershed system. Thus, streamow is considered the residual of the hydrologic cycle.
