Dynamic modeling of predictive uncertainty by regression on absolute errors

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Pianosi, F ^a   Raso, L ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ERROR; ABSOLUTE VALUES; CYCLOSTATIONARY; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; DYNAMIC MODELING; DYNAMIC STRUCTURE; DYNAMIC UNCERTAINTY; ERROR VARIANCE; HETEROSCEDASTIC; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; HYDROLOGICAL FORECAST; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INDEPENDENT MODEL; MODELING RESULTS; POINT ESTIMATE; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RESIDUAL ERROR; STATIC MODEL; TEST CASE; VARIANCE MODELS; WATER MANAGERS;

ERRORS; FORECASTING; HYDROLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84858811524     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010603     Document Type: Article

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