A parsimonious hydrological model for a data scarce dryland region

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 909-926

  Pande, Saket ^a   Savenije, Hubert H G ^a   Bastidas, Luis A ^b   Gosain, Ashvin K ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Dryland areas; India; Mathematical programming; Parsimonious modeling; Water management

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DRYLAND AREAS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INDIA; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PARSIMONIOUS MODELING; ROBUST MODEL SELECTIONS; STRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT;

HYDROLOGY;

ECONOMIC SYSTEM; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OVERLAND FLOW; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

INDIA;

HORTONIA;

EID: 85028100264     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9816-z     Document Type: Article

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