A review of regionalisation for continuous streamflow simulation

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3539-3553

  He, Y ^a   Bardossy A ^b   Zehe, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE-BASED; FLOOD QUANTILES; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; STREAMFLOW SIMULATIONS; UNGAUGED CATCHMENT;

ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGIONALIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 82055176067     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-3539-2011     Document Type: Article

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