Improvement of Hydrological Simulations by Applying Daily Precipitation Interpolation Schemes in Meso-Scale Catchments

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 747-779

  Szcześniak, Mateusz ^a   Piniewski, Mikolłaj ^a,b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pilica; Rainfall; Spatial interpolation; Spatial scale; Station density; Sulej w reservoir; SWAT; Temporal scale; Watershed model

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF;

PILICA; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL SCALE; SWAT; TEMPORAL SCALE; WATERSHED MODELING;

CATCHMENTS;

DIURNAL VARIATION; INTERPOLATION; MESOSCALE MOTION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

LODZKIE; POLAND; SULEJOW RESERVOIR;

EID: 84925440682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7020747     Document Type: Article

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