Regionalization of rainfall for broad-scale modeling: An inverse approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Pinault, J L ^a,b   Allier, D ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b BRGM ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

INVERSE MODELING; PEAK FLOW MODELING; STREAMFLOW SIMULATION;

RAIN;

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

BASIN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOW MODELING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STREAMFLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35848930377     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005642     Document Type: Article

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