Isolating the water quality responses of multiple land uses from stream monitoring data through model calibration

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 378, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 29-45

  Walton, Richard S ^a   Hunter, Heather M ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calibration; Hydrological model; Land use; Monitoring; Nitrate; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BASEFLOWS; CALIBRATION PROCESS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; COST-EFFICIENCY; DATA SETS; FLOW PATH; GOODNESS OF FIT; HSPF MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INTERFLOW; JOHNSTONE RIVER CATCHMENTS; LAND AREAS; MODEL ALGORITHMS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODELLING TIME; MONITORING PROGRAMS; MONITORING SITES; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; PREDICTIVE POWER; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; ROBUST CALIBRATION; SIMULTANEOUS CALIBRATION; SOLUTION SPACE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STREAM WATER QUALITY; SUBCATCHMENTS; SURFACE FLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; VERY LARGE DATUM; WATER QUALITY DATA; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL ANALYSIS; MONITORING; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SET THEORY; STREAM FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; BASEFLOW; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; NITRATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; JOHNSTONE RIVER; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 70349974286     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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