The significance of spatial variability of rainfall on runoff

Proc. iEMSs 4th Biennial Meeting - Int. Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, iEMSs 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 478-485

  Pechlivanidis, I G ^a   McIntyre, N ^a   Wheater, H S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Rainfall runoff models; Semi distributed modelling; Spatial rainfall

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; CATCHMENT SCALE; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; MODEL PARAMETERS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; SEMI-DISTRIBUTED MODELLING; SPATIAL EFFECT; SPATIAL RAINFALL; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUBCATCHMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RUNOFF;

RAIN;

EID: 84858326298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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