Quantifying sensitivity to droughts-an experimental modeling approach

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1371-1384

  Staudinger, M ^a   Weiler, M ^b   Seibert, J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER; RUNOFF;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SIMULATED DISCHARGES; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SEASONALITY; STREAMFLOW;

EUROPE;

EID: 84924663256     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-1371-2015     Document Type: Article

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