Parallelization of a hydrological model using the message passing interface

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 124-132

  Wu, Yiping ^a,b   Li, Tiejian ^c   Sun, Liqun ^b   Chen, Ji ^b  

^a EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hydrological model; Message passing; Parallelization; SWAT

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; HYDROLOGY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; PARALLELIZATIONS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SWAT;

MESSAGE PASSING;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROJECT DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875667196     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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