An analysis of the impact of spatial variability in rainfall on runoff and sediment predictions from a distributed model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 3263-3280

  Adams, Russell ^a   Western, Andrew W ^a   Seed, Alan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Infiltration excess runoff; Interrill erosion; Rainfall runoff modelling; Saturation excess runoff; Sediment yield; Synthetic rainfall

Indexed keywords

INFILTRATION EXCESS; INTERRILL EROSION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING; SATURATION EXCESS; SEDIMENT YIELDS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; FORECASTING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

RAIN;

CATCHMENT; INFILTRATION; INTERRILL EROSION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SATURATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84866422574     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8435     Document Type: Article

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