Temporal instability of parameters in an event-based distributed hydrologic model applied to a small semiarid catchment

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 341, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 207-221

  Maneta, Marco P ^a,b   Pasternack, Gregory B ^b   Wallender, Wesley W ^b   Jetten, Victor ^c   Schnabel, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Basin dynamics; Calibration; Distributed modeling; Parameterization; Rainfall runoff relationship

Indexed keywords

INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF;

BASIN DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTED MODELING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF RELATIONSHIP;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BASIN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; ROUGHNESS; RUNOFF; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34447093004     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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