Identification of appropriate lags and temporal resolutions for low flow indicators in the River Rhine to forecast low flows with different lead times

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 2742-2758

  Demirel, Mehmet C ^a   Booij, Martijn J ^a   Hoekstra, Arjen Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Appropriate modelling; Correlation analysis; Lag; Low flows; River Rhine; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LAG; LOW FLOW; RIVER RHINE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

CORRELATION METHODS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; RIVERS; SNOW; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

FORECASTING;

CORRELATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; RIVER FLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER STORAGE;

RHINE RIVER;

EID: 84881549071     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9402     Document Type: Article

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