Distributed conceptual modelling in a Swedish lowland catchment: A multi-criteria model assessment

Hydrology Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 318-333

  Wrede, Sebastian ^a,b,c   Seibert, Jan ^d,e,f   Uhlenbrook, Stefan ^a,g  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual hydrological catchment models; Distributed modelling; Process oriented modelling; Sub grid variability

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; DISTRIBUTED MODELLING; HYDROLOGICAL CATCHMENT MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; PROCESS-ORIENTED MODELLING; RUNOFF GENERATION PROCESS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SUB-GRID VARIABILITY;

RUNOFF; STORAGE MANAGEMENT; STREAM FLOW;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FLOW MODELING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; ROUTING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SWEDEN;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 84879094087     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2012.056     Document Type: Article

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