Data‐driven approaches for estimating uncertainty in rainfall‐runoff modelling

International Journal of River Basin Management

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-122

  Shrestha, Durga Lal ^a   Solomatine, Dimitri P ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clustering; Data driven modelling; Rainfall runoff modelling; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE BASIN; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65849306265     PISSN: 15715124     EISSN: 18142060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2008.9635341     Document Type: Article

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