Input variable selection for median flood regionalization

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Wan Jaafar, W Z ^a   Liu, J ^a   Han, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ANNUAL MAXIMUM FLOW; CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA FILTERING; ENGLAND; FLOOD ESTIMATION; GAMMA TEST; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INPUT VARIABLE SELECTION; INPUT VARIABLES; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; SELECTION OF THE BEST; SPEARMAN'S RANK CORRELATION; UNGAUGED CATCHMENT;

ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENTS;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; CATCHMENT; CORRELATION; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOODING; GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960066451     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010436     Document Type: Article

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