Locating the sources of low-pass behavior within rainfall-runoff models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Oudin, Ludovic ^a   Andréassian, Vazken ^a   Perrin, Charles ^a   Anctil, François ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Input perturbation; Potential evapotranspiration; Rainfall runoff modeling; Sensitivity analysis; Soil moisture; Temporal variability

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOISTURE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATERSHEDS;

POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (PE); RUNOFF MODELS; SYNTHETIC FLOW;

RAIN;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 10944229199     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003291     Document Type: Article

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