Role of spatial variability of rainfall intensity: Improvement of Eagleson's classical model to explain the relationship between the coefficient of variation of annual maximum discharge and catchment size

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1335-1346

  Kuzuha, Yasuhisa ^a,b,c   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^d,e   Tomosugi, Kunio ^f   Kishii, Tokuo ^a,b,g   Komatsu, Yosuke ^a,h  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h RISSHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CV of annual maximum discharge; Eagleson's model; Flood frequency; Gamma distribution; Rainfall runoff model

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

EAGLESON'S MODEL; FLOOD FREQUENCY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL;

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 33646151133     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6095     Document Type: Article

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