Benchmarking quantitative precipitation estimation by conceptual rainfall-runoff modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Heistermann, Maik ^a   Kneis, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT SCALE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CROSS VALIDATION; GOODNESS OF FIT; HYDROLOGIC MODELERS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; OPTIMUM PARAMETER SET; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RANDOM PARAMETERS; RUNOFF SIMULATION; SYNTHETIC DATA;

CATCHMENTS; GAGES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; RAIN;

RUNOFF;

BENCHMARKING; CALIBRATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

EID: 79959481562     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009153     Document Type: Article

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