Dominant physical controls on hourly flow predictions and the role of spatial variability: Mahurangi catchment, New Zealand

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-235

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flooding; Modelling; Predictive uncertainty; Process controls; Spatial variability; Timescales; Ungauged catchments

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LANDSLIDES; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

FLOW PREDICTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

CATCHMENT; FLOOD; FLOW MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CATCHMENT; FLOOD; FLOW MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

MAHURANGI RIVER; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 0037371102     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(02)00183-5     Document Type: Article

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