A watershed rainfall data recovery approach with application to distributed hydrological models

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1937-1948

  Chu, Jinggang ^a   Zhang, Chi ^a,b   Wang, Yilun ^b   Zhou, Huicheng ^a   Shoemaker, Christine A ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrological modelling; Missing rainfall data recovery; Rain gauges; Spatial interpolation; SWAT; Water flow simulation

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; MISSING RAINFALL DATA; RAIN GAUGES; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SWAT; WATER FLOW SIMULATION;

BUILDINGS; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAGES; LANDFORMS; OBSERVATORIES; RAIN GAGES; RECOVERY; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS;

RAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INTERPOLATION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED;

CHINA;

EID: 84862672320     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8242     Document Type: Article

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