Regionalization of precipitation and air temperature over high-altitude catchments - learning from outliers;Méthode de régionalisation des précipitations et des températures de l'air pour les bassins de haute altitude - ce que nous enseignent les bassins à problème

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 928-940

  Valéry, Audrey ^a   Andréassian, Vazken ^a   Perrin, Charles ^a  

^a Procédés biotechnologiques au service de l'environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Altitudinal gradients; Biased inputs; Mountainous and snow affected catchments; Precipitation; Water balance

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDINAL GRADIENTS; BIASED INPUTS; MOUNTAINOUS AND SNOW-AFFECTED CATCHMENTS; PRECIPITATION; WATER BALANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RUNOFF; SNOW;

CATCHMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OUTLIER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

FRANCE; SWEDEN;

EID: 78649754352     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2010.504676     Document Type: Article

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