Assessment of water budget for sixteen large drainage basins in Canada

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 512, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-15

  Wang, Shusen ^a   Huang, Jianliang ^a   Li, Junhua ^a   Rivera, Alfonso ^b   McKenney, Daniel W ^c   Sheffield, Justin ^d  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Canadian drainage basins; EALCO model; GRACE; Precipitation; Streamflow; Water budget

Indexed keywords

GRACE; GRACE SATELLITES; HYDROMETRIC STATIONS; OBSERVATION NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION GRIDS; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE; WATER SURFACE;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STREAM FLOW;

BUDGET CONTROL;

DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRACE; HYDROMETRY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STREAMFLOW; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WATER BUDGET;

CANADA;

EID: 84901743700     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.02.058     Document Type: Article

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