Spatial patterns in thunderstorm rainfall events and their coupling with watershed hydrological response

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 843-860

  Morin, Efrat ^a   Goodrich, David C ^b   Maddox, Robert A ^c   Gao, Xiaogang ^d   Gupta, Hoshin V ^c   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed hydrological models; Rain cell; Rainfall; Spatial patterns; Thunderstorms; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

GAGES; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORMS; WATERSHEDS;

AIR MASS THUNDERSTORMS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; RAIN CELLS; RAIN GAUGE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; WATERSHED HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE;

RAIN;

GAGES; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORMS; WATERSHEDS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; THUNDERSTORM; WATERSHED;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645878604     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.07.014     Document Type: Article

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