Calibrating hourly rainfall-runoff models with daily forcings for streamflow forecasting applications in meso-scale catchments

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 76, Issue , 2016, Pages 20-36

  Bennett, James C ^a   Robertson, David E ^a   Ward, Phillip G D ^a,b   Hapuarachchi, H A Prasantha ^c   Wang, Q J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

AWBM; GR4J; Hourly data; PDM; Rainfall disaggregation; Rainfall runoff calibration; Sacramento; Streamflow forecasting

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

AWBM; GR4J; HOURLY DATA; RAINFALL DISAGGREGATION; RAINFALL RUNOFF; SACRAMENTO; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84948808944     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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