Towards improved criteria for hydrological model calibration: Theoretical analysis of distance- and weak form-based functions

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 401, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Guinot, V ^a   Cappelaere, B ^a   Delenne, C ^a   Ruelland, D ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Calibration; Conceptual hydrological model; Mean squared error; Model performance evaluation; Nash Sutcliffe efficiency; Objective function

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MODEL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; NASH-SUTCLIFFE EFFICIENCY; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79953161102     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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