Statistical Downscaling of River Runoff in a Semi Arid Catchment

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-136

  Samadi, S ^a   Carbone, Gregory J ^a   Mahdavi, M ^b   Sharifi, F ^c   Bihamta, M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Semi arid catchment; Statistical downscaling; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; RUNOFF; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION; DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SEMIARID CATCHMENTS; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING MODEL (SDSM); TEMPERATURE PROJECTION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CATCHMENT; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER FLOW; RUNOFF; SEMIARID REGION; STREAMFLOW;

IRAN; KARKHEH RIVER; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84871456292     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0170-6     Document Type: Article

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