Top-down and data-based mechanistic modelling of rainfall-flow dynamics at the catchment scale

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2195-2217

  Young, Peter ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catchment scale; Data based mechanistic; Deterministic; Hypothetico deductive; Inductive; Parsimonious; Rainfall flow; Reductionist; Stochastic; Top down

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; RAIN;

RAINFALL-FLOW DYNAMICS;

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0042732130     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1328     Document Type: Article

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