Assessing the detail needed to capture rainfall-runoff dynamics with physics-based hydrologic response simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Mirus, Benjamin B ^a,b   Ebel, Brian A ^a,c   Heppner, Christopher S ^a,d   Loague, Keith ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Erler and Kalinowski Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUES; CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT; DATA SETS; DOMINANT PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FORESTED ENVIRONMENT; FUNDAMENTAL CONTROL; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; OVERLAND FLOW; PARAMETERIZING; PHYSICS-BASED; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; PROCESS REPRESENTATION; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINFALL RUNOFF; RUNOFF GENERATION; SOIL DEPTH; SUBSURFACE STORMFLOW; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVESTMENTS; RAIN; WATER SUPPLY;

RUNOFF;

DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HEURISTICS; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RANGELAND; SOIL DEPTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958837569     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009906     Document Type: Article

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