Development and testing of a simple physically-based distributed rainfall-runoff model for storm runoff simulation in humid forested basins

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 336, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 334-346

  Du, Jinkang ^a   Xie, Shunping ^a   Xu, Youpeng ^a   Xu, Chong yu ^b,d   Singh, Vijay P ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Texas A and M University   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Distributed hydrological model; Forested basins; Lateral subsurface flow; Overland flow; Saturation excess overland flow; Storm runoff

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; INFILTRATION; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; FORESTED BASINS; LATERAL SUBSURFACE FLOW; OVERLAND FLOW; SATURATION EXCESS OVERLAND FLOW; STORM RUNOFF;

STORMS;

FLOW OF WATER; INFILTRATION; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; STORMS;

CHANNEL FLOW; DARCY LAW; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; FORESTED CATCHMENT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; MODEL TEST; OVERLAND FLOW; PEAK FLOW; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; ROUTING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIAOKOU RESERVOIR; YONG RIVER; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 33947201643     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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