Rainfall-runoff modeling in a small hyper-arid catchment

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 373, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 204-217

  Bahat, Yonatan ^a   Grodek, Tamir ^a   Lekach, Judith ^a   Morin, Efrat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hyper arid catchment; Israel; Model calibration; Objective function; Rainfall runoff model; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

HYPER-ARID CATCHMENT; ISRAEL; MODEL CALIBRATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL;

ARID REGIONS; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; GAGES; HYDRAULIC MODELS; RAIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RUNOFF;

ARID REGION; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUGE; INFILTRATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NAHAL YAEL;

EID: 66949125433     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.04.026     Document Type: Article

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