Model performance of downscaling 1999-2004 hydrometeorological fields to the upper Rio Grande basin using different forcing datasets

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 677-694

  Li, Jialun ^a   Gao, X ^a   Sorooshian, S ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE BASIN;

EID: 58049103786     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM912.1     Document Type: Article

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