Climate and landscape controls on water balance model complexity over changing timescales

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 50-1-50-17

  Atkinson, S E ^a   Woods, R A ^b   Sivapalan, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate controls; Landscape controls; Model complexity; Timescale; Uncertainty; Water balance

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATIC DRYNESS INDEX;

HYDROLOGY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0037004058     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002wr001487     Document Type: Article

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