Modeling the catchment via mixtures: Issues of model specification and validation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

HIERARCHICAL MIXTURES OF EXPERTS (HME); MODEL AGGREGATION; MODEL ERRORS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SIMULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 33846370929     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004613     Document Type: Article

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