On the ability to infer spatial catchment variability using streamflow hydrographs

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Pokhrel, Prafulla ^a   Gupta, Hoshin V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT INFORMATION; CATCHMENT MODELS; DATA ERRORS; DISPERSIVE EFFECTS; DISTRIBUTED DATA; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; INTERIOR FLOW; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SPATIAL PROPERTIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED MODELS; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED PARAMETERS; STREAMFLOW HYDROGRAPH;

ESTIMATION; INFORMATION THEORY; RUNOFF; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROGRAPH; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 80052324951     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009873     Document Type: Article

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