Development of a possibilistic method for the evaluation of predictive uncertainty in rainfall-runoff modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Jacquin, Alexandra P ^a,b   Shamseldin, Asaad Y ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION (GLUE); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODEL;

HYDROLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249082149     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005072     Document Type: Article

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