Preferential flows and travel time distributions: Defining adequate hypothesis tests for hydrological process models

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1537-1547

  Beven, Keith J ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hydrological models; Limits of acceptability; Type I errors; Type II errors; Type III errors; Uncertainty estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954362729     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7718     Document Type: Editorial

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