Performance of conceptual rainfall-runoff models in low-yielding ephemeral catchments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 153-166

  Ye, W ^a   Bates, B C ^b   Viney, N R ^c   Sivapalan, M ^c   Jakeman, A J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CALIBRATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; CALIBRATION PERIODS; CRITICAL DETERMINANT; LARGE-SCALE CATCHMENT MODELS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; RAINFALL AND RUNOFFS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; SURFACE INFILTRATION;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENTS; GROUNDWATER; RAINFALL; RUNOFF;

ARID REGION; EPHEMERAL STREAM; RAINFALL/RUNOFF MODELLING;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030621249     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR02840     Document Type: Article

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