Modelling water balances in an Alpine catchment through exploitation of emergent properties over changing time scales

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2125-2149

  Eder, G ^a   Sivapalan, M ^b   Nachtnebel, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Downward approach; Emergent properties; Hydrologic modelling; Model structure; Time scales; Water balance

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; STREAM FLOW; WATER;

COMPLEXITY;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0041730815     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1325     Document Type: Article

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