Calibration of a physically based, spatially distributed hydrological model in a glacierized basin: On the use of knowledge from glaciometeorological processes to constrain model parameters

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ragettli, S ^a   Pellicciotti, F ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CENTRAL CHILE; GLACIER RUNOFF; GLACIERIZED BASINS; LAPSE RATE; METEOROLOGICAL INPUT; MODEL PARAMETERS; PHYSICALLY BASED; POINT MEASUREMENT; RECALIBRATIONS; RIVER BASINS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SNOW AND ICE; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; SUMMER SEASON; TEMPERATURE INDEX;

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; EXTRAPOLATION; HYDROLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ABLATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; GLACIER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; METEOROLOGY; RADIATION BALANCE; RIVER BASIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ACONCAGUA RIVER; ANDES; CHILE; JUNCAL NORTE GLACIER; VALPARAISO [CHILE];

EID: 84858400021     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010559     Document Type: Article

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