Use of spatially distributed water table observations to constrain uncertainty in a rainfall-runoff model

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-317

  Lamb, R ^a   Beven, K ^b   Myrabo S ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Ctr for Soil and Environ Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

Distributed hydrological models; TOPMODEL; Uncertainty; Water table predictions

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; RAINFALL RUNOFF MODEL; WATER TABLE;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN; RUNOFF; WATER LEVELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GROUNDWATER; MODEL; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; WATER TABLE;

NORWAY;

EID: 0344938263     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(98)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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