Advanced flood forecasting in Alpine watersheds by coupling meteorological observations and forecasts with a distributed hydrological model

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 267, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 40-52

  Jasper, Karsten ^a,b   Gurtz, Joachim ^a,b   Lang, Herbert ^a,b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributed atmospheric hydrological modeling; Flood forecasting; Mountain hydrology; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HYDROGRAPHS;

HYDROLOGY;

COUPLING; FLOOD FORECASTING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ITALY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0036783741     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(02)00138-5     Document Type: Article

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