Corruption of parameter behavior and regionalization by model and forcing data errors: A Bayesian example using the SNOW17 model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  He, Minxue ^a,b,c   Hogue, Terri S ^a   Franz, Kristie J ^d   Margulis, Steven A ^a   Vrugt, Jasper A ^e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RIVERSIDE TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION MODEL; AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION DATA; DATA ERRORS; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; ERROR SOURCES; HYDROCLIMATIC; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PARAMETER REGIONALIZATION; SITE CHARACTERISTICS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERRORS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; SNOW;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABLATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960909525     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009753     Document Type: Article

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