Global-scale river routing-an efficient time-delay algorithm based on HydroSHEDS high-resolution hydrography

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1114-1128

  Gong, L ^a,b   Halldin, S ^a   Xu, C Y ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Computational efficiency; Global scale; High resolution hydrography; HydroSHEDS; River routing; Time delay algorithm

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; GLOBAL SCALE; HIGH-RESOLUTION HYDROGRAPHY; HYDROSHEDS; TIME-DELAY ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; NAVIGATION; PIXELS; RIVER CONTROL; RUNOFF; TIME DELAY;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

ALGORITHM; HYDROGRAPHY; HYDROLOGY; PIXEL; RIVER CHANNEL; ROUTING; RUNOFF; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVE VELOCITY; WEATHER;

CHINA; DONG RIVER; GUANGDONG; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE RIVER;

EID: 77956374584     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7795     Document Type: Article

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