Catchment classification by runoff behaviour with self-organizing maps (SOM)

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2947-2962

  Ley, R ^a   Casper, M C ^a   Hellebrand, H ^b   Merz, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b Hydrosol   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT PROPERTIES; FLOW DURATION CURVE; GERMANY; RESPONSE BEHAVIOUR; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; UNGAUGED CATCHMENT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; LAKES; RUNOFF; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; HYDROLOGY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINGAUGE; REGIONALIZATION; RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

EID: 80053064346     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-2947-2011     Document Type: Article

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