11Changes in land use within a catchment are among the causes of non-stationarity in the flood 12 regime, as they modify the upper soil physical structure and its runoff production capacity. This 13 paper analyzes the relation between the variation of the upper soil hydraulic properties due to 14 changes in land use and its effect on the magnitude of peak flows: 1) incorporating fractal scaling 15 properties to relate the effect of the static storage capacity (the sum of capillary water storage 16 capacity in the root zone, canopy interception and surface puddles) and the upper soil vertical 17 saturated hydraulic conductivity on the flood regime; 2) describing the effect of the spatial 18
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