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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-627-2025
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04 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 04 Feb 2025

Achieving water budget closure through physical hydrological process modelling: insights from a large-sample study

Xudong Zheng, Dengfeng Liu, Shengzhi Huang, Hao Wang, and Xianmeng Meng

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