Benchmarking global land surface models against the observed mean annual runoff from 150 large basins

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2012, Pages 269-279

  Zhou, Xinyao ^a,b,c   Zhang, Yongqiang ^b   Wang, Yingping ^b   Zhang, Huqiang ^b   Vaze, Jai ^b   Zhang, Lu ^b   Yang, Yonghui ^a   Zhou, Yanchun ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Global; Hydrology; Land surface models; Mean annual runoff; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RUNOFF; BASEFLOWS; GLOBAL; GLOBAL LAND SURFACE; HIGH LATITUDES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; KEY MODELS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; POSITIVE BIAS; SECOND PHASE; SOIL WETNESS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; WET BASINS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

RUNOFF;

BASEFLOW; BENCHMARKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF;

AMAZON BASIN; ORINOCO BASIN;

EID: 84868364225     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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