Ancient numerical daemons of conceptual hydrological modeling: 1. Fidelity and efficiency of time stepping schemes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Clark, Martyn P ^a   Kavetski, Dmitri ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMONLY USED; ERROR TOLERANCE; EXPLICIT SCHEME; HYDROCLIMATIC; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; IMPLICIT EULER METHOD; MODEL ANALYSIS; MODEL EQUATIONS; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL STRUCTURAL ERROR; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PARAMETER SET; PARAMETER SPACES; PERFORMANCE ASPECTS; PRACTICAL GUIDELINES; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; STRUCTURAL ERRORS; TIME STEP; TIME STEPPING ALGORITHMS; TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ERRORS; MODELS; RUNOFF;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

EID: 77958485884     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008894     Document Type: Article

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