A bootstrap approach to assess parameter uncertainty in simple catchment models

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 919-926

  Selle, Benny ^a   Hannah, Murray ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Conceptual catchment models; Conceptual rainfall runoff modelling; Model calibration; Parameter calibration

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUTOCORRELATED; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BOOTSTRAP APPROACH; CATCHMENT MODELS; CATCHMENT SCALE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL ERRORS; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; NON-PARAMETRIC; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; INFERENCE ENGINES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RUNOFF;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ERROR ANALYSIS; IRRIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SALT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77951121542     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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