Regionalisation of land surface hydrological model parameters in subarctic and arctic environments

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 33, Issue 17-18, 2008, Pages 1081-1089

  Dornes, Pablo F ^a   Tolson, Bryan A ^b   Davison, Bruce ^c   Pietroniro, Alain ^c   Pomeroy, John W ^a   Marsh, Philip ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed physically based model; Landscape based parameters; Regionalisation; Snow cover depletion; Step wise calibration

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COLD ROLLING; EARTH SCIENCES; FORECASTING; HYDRAULIC MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RESEARCH; RUNOFF; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; WATER; WIND EFFECTS;

ABLATION PROCESSES; CALIBRATION PROCEDURES; COLD REGIONS; DEFAULT PARAMETERS; DISTRIBUTED PHYSICALLY BASED MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; LAND COVERS; LAND SURFACES; LANDSCAPE-BASED PARAMETERS; PHYSICALLY BASED; PREDICTION IN UNGAUGED BASINS; REGIONALISATION; REMOTE LOCATIONS; SIMILARITY CRITERION; SNOW ACCUMULATIONS; SNOW MELT RUNOFF; SNOW-COVER DEPLETION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITIES; STEP-WISE CALIBRATION; VEGETATION EFFECTS; VEGETATION PARAMETERS;

LANDFORMS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; PREDICTION; RUNOFF; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SUBARCTIC REGION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 52949112971     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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