Utility of gridded rainfall for IHACRES daily river flow predictions in southern California watersheds

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 428-435

  Hope, Allen ^a   Decker, Jordan ^a   Jankowski, Piotr ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Precipitation; Simulation; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

PROCESS RAINFALL; RAINFALL DATASET;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; RIVER FLOW; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41149126885     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2008.00172.x     Document Type: Article

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