Identification of nonlinearity in rainfall-flow response using data-based mechanistic modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  McIntyre, Neil ^a   Young, Peter ^b,c   Orellana, Barbara ^a   Marshall, Miles ^a,d   Reynolds, Brian ^d   Wheater, Howard ^a,e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SURFACE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DBM METHODS; DRY SPELLS; FLOW DATA; FLOW PATHWAYS; FLOW RESPONSE; HIGH PRECISION; IDENTIFICATION OF NONLINEARITIES; MASS BALANCE; MECHANISTIC INTERPRETATIONS; MECHANISTIC MODELING; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NON-LINEARITY; NON-STATIONARITIES; PLAUSIBLE MODEL; SOIL PROPERTY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE FLOW; TIME SERIES MODELS; VALIDATION PERIODS; WET WINTERS; WETTING-DRYING;

MODEL STRUCTURES; RAIN; ROADS AND STREETS; TIME SERIES;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

FLOW MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS BALANCE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE FLUX; TIME SERIES; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

EID: 79952760271     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009851     Document Type: Article

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