Comparison of conceptual model performance using different representations of spatial variability

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 356, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 106-118

  Das, Tapash ^a   Bárdossy, András ^a   Zehe, Erwin ^b   He, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed modelling; Predictive uncertainty; Rainfall runoff model; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION; RAIN; RUNOFF;

DISTRIBUTED MODELING; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

STREAM FLOW;

ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCHARGE; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 44749085311     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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