Performance assessment and improvement of recursive digital baseflow filters for catchments with different physical characteristics and hydrological inputs

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 39-52

  Li, Li ^a   Maier, Holger R ^a   Partington, Daniel ^a   Lambert, Martin F ^a   Simmons, Craig T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Baseflow; Framework; Prediction; Recursive digital filters; Regression models

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOW SEPARATIONS; BASEFLOWS; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; FRAMEWORK; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; RECURSIVE DIGITAL FILTERS; REGRESSION MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BASEFLOW; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; DIGITIZATION; FILTER; HYDROGRAPHY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION;

EID: 84892451933     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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