Calibration of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model for flood frequency estimation by continuous simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3103-3114

  Lamb, Robert ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; FUNCTIONS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTED MODEL (PDM); RECESSION CURVE ANALYSIS;

FLOODS;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; PEAK FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

EID: 0032879523     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900119     Document Type: Article

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