A comparative study in modelling runoff and its components in two mountainous catchments

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 297-311

  Gurtz, Joachim ^a   Zappa, Massimiliano ^a   Jasper, Karsten ^a   Lang, Herbert ^a   Verbunt, Mark ^a,b   Badoux, Alexandre ^c   Vitvar, Tomas ^a,d  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine catchments; Distributed hydrological model; HRU; Lysimeter; Multiple validation; Runoff generation; WaSiM

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE; RUNOFF; SNOW; SOILS;

MOUNTAINOUS CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENTS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SNOWMELT; WATER BUDGET;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0037442673     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1125     Document Type: Article

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