Results from a full coupling of the HIRHAM regional climate model and the MIKE SHE hydrological model for a Danish catchment

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4733-4749

  Larsen, M A D ^a,c   Refsgaard, J C ^b   Drews, M ^c   Butts, M B ^d   Jensen, K H ^a   Christensen, J H ^e   Christensen, O B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d DHI   (Denmark)

^e DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RUNOFF; TENSORS; WIND;

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; CUMULATIVE PRECIPITATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODELING VARIABILITY; PERFORMANCE STATISTICS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; DISCHARGE; ENERGY FLUX; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

DENMARK; MIDTJYLLAND; SKJERN BASIN;

EID: 84913556035     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-4733-2014     Document Type: Article

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