Functional model of water balance variability at the catchment scale: 2. Elasticity of fast and slow runoff components to precipitation change in the continental United States

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Harman, C J ^a   Troch, P A ^a,b   Sivapalan, M ^a,c,d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ARID AREA; CATCHMENT SCALE; EXPERIMENT DATA; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; LOW-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SLOW FLOW; SLOW RUNOFF COMPONENTS; THRESHOLD PARAMETERS; UPPER LIMITS; WATER BALANCE; WATER BALANCE MODELS;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELASTICITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WETTING;

CATCHMENTS;

ARID REGION; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; FLOW MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; THRESHOLD; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WETTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951974900     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009656     Document Type: Article

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