Functional approach to exploring climatic and landscape controls of runoff generation: 1. Behavioral constraints on runoff volume

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9300-9322

  Li, Hong Yi ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^b,c   Tian, Fuqiang ^d   Harman, Ciaran ^e  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

annual water balance; Budyko curve; Dunne diagram; parameter interconnection; runoff generation mechanisms

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL WATER BALANCE; BUDYKO CURVE; DUNNE DIAGRAM; PARAMETER INTERCONNECTION; RUNOFF GENERATION MECHANISMS;

RUNOFF;

AGGREGATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARIDITY; CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; OVERLAND FLOW; RUNOFF; SIMULATION; STREAMFLOW; WATER BUDGET;

HORTONIA;

EID: 85027949679     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016307     Document Type: Article

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