Implementation and performance analysis of a high resolution coupled numerical weather and river runoff prediction model system for an Alpine catchment

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 231-243

  Smiatek, Gerhard ^a   Kunstmann, Harald ^a,b   Werhahn, Johannes ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrological model; MM5; NWP; Perl; POE; SOAP; WASIM ETH; WEB services

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MM5; NWP; PERL; POE; WASIM-ETH;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FORECASTING; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; RIVERS; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

RUNOFF;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INTERPOLATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AMMER RIVER; BAVARIA; GERMANY;

EID: 84864068331     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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