Continuous daily hydrograph simulation using duration curves of a precipitation index

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1083-1100

  Smakhtin, V Yu ^a,c   Masse, B ^b  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Ecl Natl Sup Agronom de Rennes   (France)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Daily stream flow time series; Flow duration curve; Observed records; Precipitation index; Spatial interpolation; Ungauged sites

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DAILY STREAM FLOW TIME SERIES; FLOW DURATION CURVE; PRECIPITATION INDEX;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

CATCHMENT; HYDROGRAPH; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0034069953     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(20000430)14:6<1083::AID-HYP998>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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