Modelling the hydrological response of mediterranean catchments, Prades, Catalonia. The use of distributed models as aids to hypothesis formulation

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1287-1306

  Piñol, Josep ^a   Beven, Keith ^b   Freer, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Mediterranean hydrology; Rainfall runoff models; TOPMODEL

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; TOPOGRAPHIC INDEX; TOPOGRAPHY BASED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL (TOPMODEL);

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENT STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE; RAINFALL/RUNOFF MODEL; TOPMODEL;

SPAIN, CATALONIA, PRADES;

EID: 0031177891     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199707)11:9<1287::AID-HYP561>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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