Scaling of slope, upslope area, and soil water deficit: Implications for transferability and regionalization in topographic index modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Pradhan, Nawa Raj ^a   Ogden, Fred L ^a   Tachikawa, Yasuto ^b   Takara, Kaoru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNDERWATER SOILS;

A-PRIORI ESTIMATES; CONTOUR LENGTHS; CONTRIBUTING AREAS; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCES; MODEL PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; SCALE EFFECTS; SCALING RELATIONS; SOIL WATER DEFICITS; SUB-CATCHMENTS; SUB-SURFACE FLOWS; TOPMODEL; TOPOGRAPHIC INDICES; UNGAUGED BASINS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION; REGIONALIZATION; SLOPE; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NEPAL; NORTH AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59649098494     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006667     Document Type: Article

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