Testing the realism of model structures to identify karst system processes using water quality and quantity signatures

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3345-3358

  Hartmann, A ^a   Wagener, T ^b,c   Rimmer, A ^d   Lange, J ^a   Brielmann, H ^e   Weiler, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

karst hydrology; model evaluation; Mt. Hermon; rainfall runoff modeling; signatures; system identification

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LANDFORMS; MODEL STRUCTURES; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

KARST HYDROLOGY; MODEL EVALUATION; MT. HERMON; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SIGNATURES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KARST HYDROLOGY; MODEL TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER; WATER BUDGET; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER QUALITY; WATER STORAGE;

MOUNT HERMON;

EID: 84878775647     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20229     Document Type: Article

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