Functional model of water balance variability at the catchment scale: 1. Evidence of hydrologic similarity and space-time symmetry

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a,b,c   Yaeger, Mary A ^a   Harman, Ciaran J ^a   Xu, Xiangyu ^b,d   Troch, Peter A ^e  

^a United States of America   (United States)

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

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL WATER BALANCE; CATCHMENT SCALE; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GENERAL TRENDS; HYDROLOGIC SIMILARITY; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; NONDIMENSIONAL; REGIONAL PATTERN; RESPONSE CHARACTERISTIC; SIMILARITY PARAMETER; SITE-SPECIFIC; SLOW FLOW; SPACE TIME SYMMETRY; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THREE COMPONENT; TWO STAGE; UNIVERSAL RELATIONSHIP; WATER BALANCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RUNOFF; VAPORIZATION; WETTING;

CATCHMENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CATCHMENT; SYMMETRY; VAPORIZATION; WATER BUDGET; WATER FLOW; WETTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951994709     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009568     Document Type: Article

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