A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2498-2514

  Clark, Martyn P ^a   Nijssen, Bart ^b   Lundquist, Jessica D ^b   Kavetski, Dmitri ^c   Rupp, David E ^d   Woods, Ross A ^e   Freer, Jim E ^e   Gutmann, Ethan D ^a   Wood, Andrew W ^a   Brekke, Levi D ^f   Arnold, Jeffrey R ^g   Gochis, David J ^a   Rasmussen, Roy M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^g US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrometeorology; scaling behavior; unified model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; HYDROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION;

CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MULTIPLE WORKING HYPOTHESIS; SCALING BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; UNCERTAINTY CHARACTERIZATION; UNIFIED MODELING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84929622428     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017198     Document Type: Article

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