Community modeling systems: Classification and relevance to hydrologic modeling

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 840-856

  Lu, Bo ^a   Piasecki, Michael ^b  

^a HydroChina ^*  (China)

^b City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Community modeling system; Hydrologic modeling; Legacy software; Software benchmarks; Software libraries; Standard interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872391851     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2012.060     Document Type: Article

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