Comparison of spectral and time domain calibration methods for precipitation-discharge processes

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1048-1062

  Jan, J Quets ^a   De Lannoy, Gabriëlle J M ^a   Pauwels, Valentijn R N ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Calibration; Discharge; Equifinality; Fourier analysis; Objective function; Sensitivity analysis; Spectral calibration

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION METHOD; DISCHARGE; DISCHARGE PROCESS; DISCHARGE TIME; EQUIFINALITY; FOURIER AMPLITUDE SPECTRA; HYDROLOGIC MODELLING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL RESULTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL VALUES; PERIODOGRAMS; SENSITIVE PARAMETER; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SPECTRAL CALIBRATION; TIME DOMAIN;

CALIBRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PEAK DISCHARGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951656742     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7546     Document Type: Article

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