Implications of distributed hydrologic model parameterization on water fluxes at multiple scales and locations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 360-379

  Kumar, Rohini ^a   Samaniego, Luis ^a   Attinger, Sabine ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE UNIT; PARAMETER REGIONALIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION METHOD; SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PARAMETERIZATION;

BASIN; CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER EXCHANGE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84876582747     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012195     Document Type: Article

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