The value of satellite-derived snow cover images for calibrating a hydrological model in snow-dominated catchments in Central Asia

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2002-2021

  Duethmann, Doris ^a   Peters, Juliane ^b   Blume, Theresa ^a   Vorogushyn, Sergiy ^a   Güntner, Andreas ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

hydrological modeling; multiobjective calibration; satellite derived snow cover images

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RUNOFF; SATELLITES;

CALIBRATION PERIODS; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MULTI-OBJECTIVE CALIBRATION; MULTI-OBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM; SNOW COVERS;

SNOW;

EID: 84895418584     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014382     Document Type: Article

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