Can dynamic vegetation information improve the accuracy of Budyko's hydrological model?

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 390, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 23-34

  Donohue, R J ^a,b   Roderick, M L ^b,c   McVicar, T R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Annual; Ecohydrology; Evergreen; FPAR; Perennial; Scale

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL AVERAGE; ANNUAL DYNAMICS; AUSTRALIA; ECO-HYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; PREDICTION ERRORS; RELATED VARIABLES; SPATIAL SCALE; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; VARIABLE MODEL; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; HYDRAULICS; REMOTE SENSING; STREAM FLOW;

VEGETATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ECOHYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77955277547     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.06.025     Document Type: Article

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