Hierarchical testing of three rainfall-runoff models in small forested catchments

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 219, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 136-152

  Donnelly Makowecki, L M ^a   Moore, R D ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Hydrology; Jackknife; Modeling; Streamflow; Validation

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; STATISTICAL TESTS; STREAM FLOW;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); CATCHMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL SPLIT-SAMPLE TEST; HYDROGRAPHS; QUASI-DISTRIBUTED RESPONSE FUNCTION;

WATERSHEDS;

FORESTED CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

EID: 0033536169     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(99)00056-6     Document Type: Article

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