On the effects of improved cross-section representation in one-dimensional flow routing models applied to ephemeral rivers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hutton, Christopher J ^a   Brazier, Richard E ^a   Nicholas, Andrew P ^a   Nearing, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL PARAMETERS; CATCHMENT MODELS; CROSS-SECTION MORPHOLOGY; DERIVED DATA; EPHEMERAL CHANNELS; EPHEMERAL RIVER; EVALUATION PHASE; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; FLASH FLOOD; FLOW ROUTING; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; LIDAR DATA; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; NATURAL HAZARD; ONEDIMENSIONAL FLOW; PARAMETER INTERACTIONS; PARAMETER SET; WALNUT GULCH;

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR;

RUNOFF;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; EPHEMERAL STREAM; FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOW MODELING; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; RECHARGE; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES; WALNUT GULCH;

JUGLANS;

EID: 84859704406     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011298     Document Type: Article

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