Discharge and water-depth estimates for ungauged rivers: Combining hydrologic, hydraulic, and inverse modeling with stage and water-area measurements from satellites

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 6017-6035

  Liu, Ganming ^a   Schwartz, Franklin W ^a   Tseng, Kuo Hsin ^b   Shum, C K ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ENVISAT; LANDSAT; Red River of the North; river channels; SWAT; ungauged rivers

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GAGING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; RIVERS; WATER LEVELS;

ENVISAT; LANDSAT; RED RIVER; RIVER CHANNELS; SWAT; UNGAUGED RIVERS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ALGORITHM; DISCHARGE; ENVISAT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER CHANNEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH;

RED RIVER [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941993276     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR016971     Document Type: Article

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