Rainfall-runoff model calibration using informal likelihood measures within a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling scheme

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  McMillan, Hilary ^a   Clark, Martyn ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; CALIBRATION PROBLEMS; FLOW RESPONSE; GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; MARKOV CHAIN; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MCMC METHOD; PARAMETER INTERACTIONS; QUALITATIVE KNOWLEDGE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; RESPONSE SURFACE; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SCEM-UA; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; UNIFORM MONTE CARLO;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RUNOFF;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649865631     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007288     Document Type: Article

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