Error analysis for the evaluation of model performance: Rainfall-runoff event time series data

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1529-1548

  Pebesma, Edzer J ^a   Switzer, Paul ^b   Loague, Keith ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error time series; Model performance evaluation; Rainfall runoff modelling; Recalibration

Indexed keywords

ERROR TIME SERIES; INTEGRATED HYDROLOGY MODEL (INHM); QUASI-PHYSICALLY-BASED RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL (QPBRRM); SMOOTH FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; TIME SERIES;

EID: 20644445412     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5587     Document Type: Article

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