Articles | Volume 20, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1151-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1151-2016
Research article
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17 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 17 Mar 2016

The importance of topography-controlled sub-grid process heterogeneity and semi-quantitative prior constraints in distributed hydrological models

Remko C. Nijzink, Luis Samaniego, Juliane Mai, Rohini Kumar, Stephan Thober, Matthias Zink, David Schäfer, Hubert H. G. Savenije, and Markus Hrachowitz

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