Assessing the value of high-resolution isotope tracer data in the stepwise development of a lumped conceptual rainfall-runoff model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2335-2348

  Birkel, C ^a,b   Dunn, S M ^a   Tetzlaff, D ^b   Soulsby, C ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservative tracers; Measurement uncertainty; Models; Multi criteria calibration; Sampling resolution; Solute transport; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MULTI-CRITERIA; SAMPLING RESOLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPES;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEUTERIUM; HYDRAULICS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; RUNOFF; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STABLE ISOTOPE; STREAMFLOW; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77955497787     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7763     Document Type: Article

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