Hydrological model selection: A Bayesian alternative

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Marshall, Lucy ^a   Nott, David ^a   Sharma, Ashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; HYDROLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICAL INFERENCE; HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; METROPOLIS ALGORITHM; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

EID: 28244439991     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003719     Document Type: Article

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