Sensitivity of hydrological simulations of southeastern United States watersheds to temporal aggregation of rainfall

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1334-1344

  Bastola, Satish ^a   Misra, Vasubandhu ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883813585     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-096.1     Document Type: Article

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