Regional-scale river flow modeling using off-the-shelf runoff products, thousands of mapped rivers and hundreds of stream flow gauges

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 116-132

  David, Cédric H ^a   Yang, Zong Liang ^a   Hong, Seungbum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow; Gauge; Optimization; River; Runoff

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FLOW; FLOW COMPUTATION; GULF COAST; HYDROLOGIC REGIONS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LARGE RIVERS; MODEL COMPUTATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NLDAS-2; NORTH AMERICAN LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; RELATIVE QUALITIES; RIVER FLOW; RIVER MODEL; RIVER NETWORK; RIVERS AND STREAMS; RUNOFF DATASETS; SECOND PHASE; SINGLE SET OF PARAMETERS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEST CASE; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WATER INFLOWS;

FLOW CONTROL; GAGES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RIVERS; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW;

RUNOFF;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONNECTIVITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; FLOW MODELING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFLOW; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RIVER SYSTEM; RUNOFF; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874510724     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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