On the dialog between experimentalist and modeler in catchment hydrology: Use of soft data for multicriteria model calibration

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 23-1-23-14

  Seibert, Jan ^a   McDonnell, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual catchment modeling; Hillslope hydrology; Multicriteria calibration; Qualitative knowledge; Soft data

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF;

HYDROLOGICAL RESERVOIRS;

CATCHMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; RUNOFF;

EID: 0036879790     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000978     Document Type: Article

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