Consideration of measurement uncertainty in the evaluation of goodness-of-fit in hydrologic and water quality modeling

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 337, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 326-336

  Daren Harmel, R ^a   Smith, Patricia K ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Index of agreement; Model calibration; Model validation; Nash Sutcliffe; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER QUALITY;

INDEX OF AGREEMENT; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; WATER RESOURCE POLICY;

HYDROLOGY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER QUALITY;

CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; POLICY APPROACH; STANDARD (REGULATION); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 34047247047     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.01.043     Document Type: Article

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