Development and Integration of Sub-hourly Rainfall-Runoff Modeling Capability Within a Watershed Model

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4505-4527

  Jeong, Jaehak ^a   Kannan, Narayanan ^a   Arnold, Jeff ^b   Glick, Roger ^c   Gosselink, Leila ^c   Srinivasan, Raghavan ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Watershed Protection and Development Review Department City of Austin   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rainfall runoff modeling; Sub hourly simulation; Subdaily simulation; SWAT; Watershed modeling

Indexed keywords

HOURLY SIMULATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SUBDAILY SIMULATION; SWAT; WATERSHED MODELING;

AERODYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

FLOW SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; BASEFLOW; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IMPOUNDMENT; INFILTRATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SOIL WATER; STREAMFLOW; URBANIZATION; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

EID: 78249279634     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9670-4     Document Type: Article

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