The court of miracles of hydrology: Can failure stories contribute to hydrological science?;La cour des miracles de l'hydrologie: Les histoires d'échecs peuvent-elles contribuer à la science hydrologique?

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 849-856

  Andréassian, Vazken ^a   Perrin, Charles ^a   Parent, Eric ^b   Bárdossy, Andras ^c  

^a National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Error; Failure; Hydrology; Negative result; Outlier

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; FAILURE; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE RESULT; OUTLIER;

ERRORS; HYDROLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

WATER;

ANOMALY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGY; OUTLIER;

EID: 78649734998     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: 21503435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2010.506050     Document Type: Review

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