Parsimonious hydrological modeling of urban sewer and river catchments

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 464-465, Issue , 2012, Pages 477-484

  Coutu, Sylvain ^a   Del Giudice, Dario ^a,b,c   Rossi, Luca ^a   Barry, D A ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Case study; Modeling; Sewer catchment; Urban hydrology

Indexed keywords

COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS; DYNAMIC STORAGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROSYSTEMS; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; PIPE NETWORKS; RIVER CATCHMENT; SIMPLE APPROACH; SIMULATING FLOWS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SWITZERLAND; URBAN HYDROLOGY; URBAN RIVER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

COMBINED SEWERS; EFFLUENTS; INLET FLOW; MODELS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; EFFLUENT; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MODEL VALIDATION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; URBAN AREA; WATER STORAGE; WATER SUPPLY;

LAUSANNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD; VIDY BAY;

EID: 84866158883     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.07.039     Document Type: Article

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