Validation of a watershed model without calibration

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Vogel, Richard M ^a   Sankarasubramanian, A ^b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Catchment model; Hypothesis testing; Moment diagram; Rainfall runoff; Verification

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATERSHEDS;

HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES; WATERSHED MODELS;

WATER RESOURCES;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

EID: 1542436773     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001940     Document Type: Article

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