Coupling of a simultaneous heat and water model with a distributed hydrological model and evaluation of the combined model in a cold region watershed

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 3762-3776

  Zhang, Yanlin ^a   Cheng, Guodong ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Han, Xujun ^a   Wang, Lei ^b,c   Li, Hongyi ^a   Chang, Xiaoli ^a   Flerchinger, G N ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NORTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold region; Distributed hydrological model; Frozen soil; Heihe River basin; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

COLD REGION HYDROLOGIES; COLD REGIONS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; HEIHE RIVER BASIN; NASH-SUTCLIFFE COEFFICIENT; SNOWMELT;

FROZEN SOILS;

COLD REGION; FROZEN GROUND; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER BASIN; SNOWMELT;

CHINA; GANSU; HEIHE BASIN;

EID: 84898547789     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9514     Document Type: Article

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