Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2859-2879

  Gudmundsson, L ^a   Seneviratne, S I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CATCHMENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DROUGHT MONITORING; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; OBSERVATION NETWORKS; TEMPORAL COVERAGE;

RUNOFF;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; MACHINE LEARNING; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UPSCALING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84934892108     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-19-2859-2015     Document Type: Article

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