Intra-annual rainfall variability control on interannual variability of catchment water balance: A stochastic analysis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zanardo, S ^a,b   Harman, C J ^c   Troch, P A ^d   Rao, P S C ^a   Sivapalan, M ^e,f  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CATCHMENT WATER BALANCE; CLIMATIC CONTROLS; CLIMATIC REGIONS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DATA-DRIVEN ANALYSIS; DIMENSIONLESS RATIOS; GEOGRAPHIC PATTERN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MODEL PARAMETERS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEASONALITY; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC NATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

CATCHMENTS;

ADAPTATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATCHMENT; CLIMATIC REGION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER BUDGET;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855913722     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009869     Document Type: Article

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