Diagnostic analysis of water balance variability: A comparative modeling study of catchments in Perth, Newcastle, and Darwin, Australia

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Samuel, Jos M ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a,b,c   Struthers, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; CATCHMENTS; CURING; DRAINAGE; DROUGHT; DRYING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; STORMS; WATER ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE-VARIABILITY; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS; DRY SEASONS; FIELD CAPACITY; LANDSCAPE FACTORS; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; RAINFALL INTENSITIES; SEASONALITY; SOIL DEPTHS; SOIL PROPERTIES; STORM EVENTS; STORM FLOWS; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE RUNOFFS; TEMPORAL CLUSTERING; TROPICAL REGIONS; WATER BALANCES; WET SEASON;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL DRAINAGE; SOIL MOISTURE; STORM; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NEW SOUTH WALES; NEWCASTLE [NEW SOUTH WALES]; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 49449116403     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006694     Document Type: Article

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