Toward improved identifiability of hydrologic model parameters: The information content of experimental data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 48-1-48-13

  Vrugt, Jasper A ^a   Bouten, Willem ^a   Gupta, Hoshin V ^b   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Identification most informative measurements; Parameter estimation; Rainfall runoff modeling; Soil hydraulic properties

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOILS; WATER;

SOIL WATER RETENTION;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SOIL WATER;

EID: 0036998958     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr001118     Document Type: Article

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