Importance of including small-scale tile drain discharge in the calibration of a coupled groundwater-surface water catchment model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 585-603

  Hansen, Anne Lausten ^a,b   Refsgaard, Jens Christian ^b   Baun Christensen, Britt Stenhøj ^b   Jensen, Karsten Høgh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION CAPACITY; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATERS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; SMALL-SCALE FLOWS; SPATIAL DESCRIPTIONS; STREAM DISCHARGE;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; RUNOFF; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TILE DRAIN;

DENMARK;

EID: 84876588080     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011783     Document Type: Article

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