The effect of spatial rainfall variability on water balance modelling for south-eastern Australian catchments

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 493, Issue , 2013, Pages 16-29

  Zhao, Fangfang ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Chiew, Francis H S ^a   Vaze, Jai ^a   Cheng, Lei ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Degree of spatial variability; Distributed modelling; Lumped modelling; Spatial rainfall variability; VIC 3L model; Virtual experiment

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MODELLING; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA; SPATIAL RAINFALL VARIABILITIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS; WATER BALANCE COMPONENTS;

CATCHMENTS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; VIRTUAL REALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84877796727     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.04.028     Document Type: Article

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