Improving the temporal transposability of lumped hydrological models on twenty diversified U.S. watersheds

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 379-399

  Seiller, G ^a   Hajji, I ^a   Anctil, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deterministic combination; Differential split sample test; Multimodel approach; Outputs averaging; Rainfall runoff modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925960280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22145818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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