Probabilistic nature of storage delay parameter of the hydrologic model RORB: A case study for the Cooper's Creek catchment in Australia

Hydrology Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 400-410

  Patel, Hitesh ^a   Rahman, Ataur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Floods; Monte carlo simulation; RORB; Runoff routing; Storage delay parameter

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DESIGN; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITIES (AEP); DELAY PARAMETERS; DESIGN EVENT APPROACHES; HIGH DEGREE OF VARIABILITY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RORB;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CATCHMENT; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; COOPER CREEK; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84930511735     PISSN: 19989563     EISSN: 22247955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2014.172     Document Type: Article

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