Towards a limits of acceptability approach to the calibration of hydrological models: Extending observation error

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 367, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 93-103

  Liu, Yanli ^a,b   Freer, Jim ^c,d   Beven, Keith ^c,e   Matgen, Patrick ^f  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f Public Research Centre   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Dynamic TOPMODEL; Equifinality; GLUE; Hypothesis testing; Limits of acceptability

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION; GLUES; GLUING; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES; RUNOFF; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

BEHAVIOURAL MODELS; EQUIFINALITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIMITS OF ACCEPTABILITY; MODEL EVALUATIONS; MODELING PROCESS; NOVEL METHODS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTIES; SUB-CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODEL TEST;

EID: 60849131264     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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