Accounting for subgrid scale topographic variations in flood propagation modeling using MODFLOW

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Milzow, C ^a,b   Kinzelbach, W ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Institute for Geotechnical Engineering   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; ELEVATION DATA; FLOOD PROPAGATION; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLOW PARAMETERS; GRID SCALE; GRID-BASED; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LONG TERM SIMULATION; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL SCALE; MODFLOW; NUMEROUS MODELS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; STORAGE VOLUMES; STUDY CASE; SUBGRID SCALE; TERRAIN ELEVATION; TIME STEP; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; UPSCALING; WATER TABLE ELEVATION;

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE MODELS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WETLANDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

NAMIBIA; OKAVANGO;

EID: 77958525338     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008088     Document Type: Article

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