Evaluation of approaches for estimation of rainfall and the unit hydrograph

Hydrology Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 372-385

  Croke, B F W ^a   Islam, A ^b   Ghosh, J ^b   Khan, M A ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR EASTERN REGION   (India)

Author keywords

Model calibration; Parameter estimation; Rainfall estimation; Unit hydrograph

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; GROUND BASED; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; RAINFALL ESTIMATION; RAINFALL INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; UNGAUGED BASINS; UNIT HYDROGRAPH;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; INTERPOLATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROGRAPH; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLYGON; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEIGHT;

BRAHMANI BASIN; INDIA; ORISSA;

EID: 80051511280     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2011.017     Document Type: Article

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