Global evaluation of runoff from 10 state-of-the-art hydrological models

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2881-2903

  Beck, Hylke E ^a,c   Van Dijk, Albert I J M ^b   De Roo, Ad ^c   Dutra, Emanuel ^d,e   Fink, Gabriel ^f   Orth, Rene ^g   Schellekens, Jaap ^h  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^g Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^h DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 85020695893     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-2881-2017     Document Type: Article

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