Correcting the mathematical structure of a hydrological model via Bayesian data assimilation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bulygina, Nataliya ^a   Gupta, Hoshin ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; HISTORICAL DATA; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INTUITIVE PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL FORMS; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; MODEL EQUATIONS; MODEL IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; RIVER CATCHMENT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CATCHMENTS; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LEAF BASIN; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957517768     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009614     Document Type: Article

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