Water Accounting Plus (WA+) - A water accounting procedure for complex river basins based on satellite measurements

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2459-2472

  Karimi, P ^a,b   Bastiaanssen, W G M ^b,c   Molden, D ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ELEAF Competence Center   (Netherlands)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; WATER ACCOUNTINGS; WATER ALLOCATION MODELS; WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; WATER PROFESSIONALS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; LAND USE; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

WATER MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84880654272     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-2459-2013     Document Type: Article

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