A new regionalization approach and its application to predict flow duration curve in ungauged basins

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 389, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 137-145

  Li, Ming ^a   Shao, Quanxi ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Chiew, Francis H S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flow duration curve; Index model; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; AUSTRALIA; FLOW DURATION CURVE; INDEX MODELS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MISSPECIFICATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; NON-PARAMETRIC; PARAMETER VALUES; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PREDICATORS; PREDICTION IN UNGAUGED BASINS; PREDICTIVE TOOLS; REGIONAL MODEL; SUMMARY STATISTIC; UNGAUGED BASINS; WATER RESOURCES PLANNING;

FORECASTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; PLANNING; RUNOFF; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CATCHMENTS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MODELING; INDEX METHOD; REGIONALIZATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STREAMFLOW; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77954384686     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.05.039     Document Type: Article

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