Ancient numerical daemons of conceptual hydrological modeling: 2. Impact of time stepping schemes on model analysis and prediction

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Kavetski, Dmitri ^a   Clark, Martyn P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATED MODEL; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCHES; EXPLICIT METHOD; HYDROCLIMATIC CONDITIONS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; INTERNAL STATE; LOCAL OPTIMA; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MODEL ANALYSIS; MODEL APPLICATION; MODEL EQUATIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTISTART; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL PROBLEMS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATIONAL USE; OPTIMIZERS; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; QUASI-NEWTON METHODS; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES; TRUNCATION ERRORS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; VALIDATION ASSESSMENT;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ERRORS; FORECASTING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODELS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

EID: 77958463981     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008896     Document Type: Article

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72. D. Kavetski, Environmental Engineering, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia