Testing the distributed water table predictions of TOPMODEL (allowing for uncertainty in model calibration): The death of TOPMODEL?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 39-1-39-11

  Blazkova, Sarka ^a   Beven, Keith ^b   Tacheci, Pavel ^a,c,d   Kulasova, Alena ^e  

^a T G MASARYK WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d DHI Hydroinform as   (Czech Republic)

^e CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Effective parameters; GLUE; Hillslope hydrology; Local parameters; Topographic index; Transmissivity

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; WATER LEVELS;

TRANSMISSIVITY;

WATER SUPPLY;

MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER TABLE;

CZECH REPUBLIC; JIZERA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0346667107     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000912     Document Type: Article

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