Regional estimation of parameters of a rainfall-runoff model at ungauged watersheds using the "spatial" structures of the parameters within a canonical physiographic-climatic space

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Hundecha, Yeshewatesfa ^a   Ouarda, Taha B M J ^a   Bárdossy, András ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATERSHEDS;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION SCHEME;

RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RUNOFF; WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; KRIGING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGIONALIZATION; WATERSHED;

EID: 39749174946     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005439     Document Type: Article

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