An evaluation of two hydrologic models for climate change scenarios

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1351-1363

  Frakes, Brent ^a   Yu, Zhongbo ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Network (ANN); Climate change; Hydrograph analysis and modeling; Hydrologic model; Pennsylvania

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RUNOFF;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; HYDROGRAPH ANALYSIS;

WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION;

EID: 0033388338     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb04220.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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