Toward a reliable decomposition of predictive uncertainty in hydrological modeling: Characterizing rainfall errors using conditional simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Renard, Benjamin ^a   Kavetski, Dmitri ^b   Leblois, Etienne ^a   Thyer, Mark ^c   Kuczera, George ^b   Franks, Stewart W ^b  

^a CENTRE DE LYON VILLEURBANNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BAYESIAN PARADIGM; CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; DERIVED DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GEOSTATISTICAL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ILL-POSEDNESS; INSTRUMENTAL DATA; LEAST SQUARE; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; PROBABILITY MODELS; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; RUNOFF DATA; RUNOFF PREDICTION; SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STRATEGIC GUIDANCE; STRUCTURAL ERRORS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CATCHMENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; GAGES; INFERENCE ENGINES; RAIN; RESEARCH; RUNOFF;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; DECOMPOSITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RAINGAUGE; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 81755176146     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010643     Document Type: Article

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