Comparative assessment of predictions in ungauged basins-Part 1: Runoff-hydrograph studies

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1783-1795

  Parajka, J ^a,c   Viglione, A ^a   Rogger, M ^a   Salinas, J L ^a   Sivapalan, M ^b   Bloschl G ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PARAMETER REGRESSIONS; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL PROXIMITY; UNGAUGED CATCHMENT;

FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS;

ARID REGION; ARIDITY; CATCHMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOSTATISTICS; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGRAPH; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RUNOFF; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879090907     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-1783-2013     Document Type: Article

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