Using SWAT to model streamflow in two river basins with ground and satellite precipitation data

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 253-271

  Tobin, Kenneth J ^a   Bennett, Marvin E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NEXRAD; Precipitation data; Rain gauge data; Rangeland; SWAT; Time series analysis; TRMM 3B42; Watershed

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GAGES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INFERENCE ENGINES; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

NEXRAD; PRECIPITATION DATA; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RANGELAND; SWAT; TRMM 3B42; WATERSHED;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; NUECES RIVER; RIO GRANDE [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58849094115     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2008.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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