Hydrologic consistency as a basis for assessing complexity of monthly water balance models for the continental United States

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Martinez, Guillermo F ^a,b   Gupta, Hoshin V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INTERA Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE MODELS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; INFORMATION CRITERION; MODEL COMPLEXITY; MONTHLY WATER BALANCE MODEL; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE TRANSFORMATIONS; WATER BALANCE;

CATCHMENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; METADATA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RUNOFF;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

CATCHMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FLOW PATTERN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; TRANSFORM; WATER BUDGET; WATER FLOW;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855488459     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011229     Document Type: Article

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