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Baseflow is the portion of the [[streamflow]] that is sustained between precipitation events, fed to streams by delayed pathways. '''Baseflow''' (also called '''drought flow''', '''groundwater recession flow''', '''low flow''', '''low-water flow''', '''low-water discharge''' and '''sustained''' or '''fair-weather runoff''') is the portion of [[streamflow]] delayed shallow subsurface flow". It should not be confused with [[groundwater flow]]. Fair weather flow is also called base flow.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kendall and McDonnell

|year= 1998

|title= Isotope Tracers in Catchment Hydrology