Large-scale hydrological modeling for calculating water stress indices: Implications of improved spatiotemporal resolution, surface-groundwater differentiation, and uncertainty characterization

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4971-4979

  Scherer, Laura ^a   Venkatesh, Aranya ^b   Karuppiah, Ramkumar ^b   Pfister, Stephan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; WATERSHEDS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LARGE SCALE HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY CHARACTERIZATION; WATER STRESS INDICES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

DROUGHT STRESS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CALIBRATION; FLUID BALANCE; FLUID INTAKE; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER STRESS; WATERSHED; HYDROLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; UNITED STATES;

GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; MISSISSIPPI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNCERTAINTY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84928400450     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00429     Document Type: Article

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