Bias correction for hydrological impact studies - beyond the daily perspective

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 4823-4828

  Addor, Nans ^a   Seibert, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84905739047     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10238     Document Type: Article

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