Do internal flow measurements improve the calibration of rainfall-runoff models?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lerat, J ^a   Andreassian V ^b   Perrin, C ^b   Vaze, J ^a   Perraud, J M ^a   Ribstein, P ^c   Loumagne, C ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Procédés biotechnologiques au service de l'environnement   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW DATA; GAUGING STATIONS; INTERIOR FLOW; INTERIOR POINT; INTERNAL POINTS; LUMPED SCHEME; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MULTI-SITE; MULTI-SITE CALIBRATION; OUTLET FLOWS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PERFORMANCE STATISTICS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS;

CALIBRATION; GAGES; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

FRANCE;

EID: 84857078134     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010179     Document Type: Article

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