Assessing the Impact of Areal Precipitation Input on Streamflow Simulations Using the SWAT Model

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 179-195

  Masih, Ilyas ^a,b   Maskey, Shreedhar ^b   Uhlenbrook, Stefan ^b,d   Smakhtin, Vladimir ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Pakistan)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrological modeling; Iran; Karkheh basin; Precipitation; Spatial and temporal resolution; Streamflow; SWAT

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IRAN; KARKHEH BASIN; PRECIPITATION; SWAT; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

BENCHMARKING; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAGES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAIN GAGES; RATING; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; UNDERWATER SOILS;

RAIN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IRAN; KARKHEH RIVER; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 79251485683     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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