Coupled Regional Hydroclimate Model and Its Application to the Tigris-Euphrates Basin

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1059-1070

  Chen, Z Q Richard ^a   Kavvas, M L ^b   Ohara, N ^b   Anderson, M L ^a   Yoon, J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climate; Data reconstruction; Geographic information system (GIS); Hydroclimate model; Hydrological model; Hydrological processes; Hydrology; Snow model; Tigris Euphrates watershed.

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; DATA RECONSTRUCTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; SNOW MODEL; TIGRIS-EUPHRATES WATERSHED.;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; DROUGHT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DROUGHT; GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SNOW; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED;

EUPHRATES BASIN; TIGRIS BASIN;

EID: 84862908542     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000207     Document Type: Article

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