Introducing a probabilistic Budyko framework

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2261-2269

  Greve, P ^a,b   Gudmundsson, L ^a   Orlowsky, B ^a   Seneviratne, S I ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Budyko framework; probability distribution; water availability

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; RUNOFF;

BUDYKO FRAMEWORK; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; CATCHMENT SCALE; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATES; RIVER RUNOFFS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RIVER FLOW; RUNOFF; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 84928703945     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063449     Document Type: Article

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