Application of temporal streamflow descriptors in hydrologic model parameter estimation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Shamir, Eylon ^a,b   Imam, Bisher ^a,c   Gupta, Hoshin V ^a   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

HYDROLOGIC MODEL; MODEL SIMULATIONS; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW RECORDS;

STREAM FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; HYDROGRAPH; PARAMETERIZATION; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 22444448315     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003409     Document Type: Article

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