Sensitivity of distributed hydrologic simulations to ground and satellite based rainfall products

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1221-1245

  Chintalapudi, Singaiah ^a   Sharif, Hatim O ^a   Xie, Hongjie ^b  

^a The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

GSSHA; NEXRAD; Runoff; Satellite rainfall; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

GAGES; RAIN; RUNOFF; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; GSSHA; HYDROLOGIC SIMULATIONS; NEXRAD; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; SATELLITE RAINFALLS;

RAIN GAGES;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RAINFALL; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

GUADALUPE BASIN; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902001198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6051221     Document Type: Article

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