Development of a national, landuse-based water balance model for Australia

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dc.contributor.authorWelsh, W
dc.contributor.authorBarratt, David Gordon
dc.contributor.authorRanatunga, Kemachandra
dc.contributor.authorRandall, L A
dc.coverage.spatialBurlington USA
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:19:26Z
dc.date.createdJuly 9-13 2006
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T11:54:11Z
dc.description.abstractAustralia currently has no nation-wide comprehensive and consistent information on the spatial and temporal relationships between rainfall, evapotranspiration, drainage to groundwater and runoff to rivers. To estimate this information a simple modelling approach utilising existing data was sought. A review of existing models and their data requirements led to the development of a steady state Geographic Information System (GIS) based method driven by long-term average climate data and high resolution land cover and land use data. Mean annual and mean monthly runoff, evapotranspiration and drainage were modelled. Runoff results were evaluated against other published values where available and found to generally compare favourably, except in arid river basins. The model parameterisation was refined by calibrating against 330 and 211 sub-basins for the annual and monthly models respectively.
dc.identifier.isbn1424308526
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/19340
dc.publisherInternational Environmental Modelling and Software Society
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBiennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society 2006
dc.sourceProceedings of Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society 2006
dc.source.urihttp://www.iemss.org/iemss2006/sesions/all.html
dc.subjectKeywords: Australia; Climate data; Continent scale; Data requirements; Geographic information systems (GIS); High resolution; Land cover; Modelling; River basins; Steady state; Subbasins; Temporal relationships; Ungauged catchment; Water balance; Water balance mode Continent scale; Modelling; Ungauged catchments; Water balance
dc.titleDevelopment of a national, landuse-based water balance model for Australia
dc.typeConference paper
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage6
local.contributor.affiliationWelsh, W, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationBarratt, David Gordon, Bureau of Rural Sciences
local.contributor.affiliationRanatunga, Kemachandra, Bureau of Rural Sciences
local.contributor.affiliationRandall, L A, Bureau of Rural Sciences
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidWelsh, W, u1473040
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor040608 - Surfacewater Hydrology
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9205081xPUB7
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84858650641
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu9205081
local.type.statusPublished Version

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