Treating an artificial catchment as ungauged: Increasing the plausibility of an uncalibrated, process-based SVAT scheme by using additional soft and hard data

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 615-629

  Bormann, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additional soft and hard data; Artificial catchment; Chicken creek; Process understanding; Process based model; Ungauged catchment

Indexed keywords

CHICKEN CREEK; HARD DATA; PROCESS UNDERSTANDING; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; UNGAUGED CATCHMENT;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCHARGE; GULLY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WATER TREATMENT;

GERMANY;

EID: 80053115576     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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