Performance assessment of a GCM land surface scheme using a fine-scale calibrated hydrological model: An evaluation of MOSES for the Nile Basin

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1548-1564

  Elshamy, Mohamed Ezzat ^a   Wheater, Howard S ^b  

^a Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Egypt   (Egypt)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Land surface schemes; Nile Basin; Runoff

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATED MODEL; DISAGGREGATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GLOBAL MODELS; GRID-BOX; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE SCHEME; LAND SURFACE SCHEMES; MOISTURE FLUXES; NILE BASIN; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SURFACE PARAMETER;

MOISTURE; RUNOFF; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; MOISTURE FLUX; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF;

AFRICA; NILE BASIN;

EID: 65949101255     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7298     Document Type: Article

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