Comparison of different uncertainty techniques in urban stormwater quantity and quality modelling

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2545-2558

  Dotto, Cintia B S ^a   Mannina, Giorgio ^b   Kleidorfer, Manfred ^c   Vezzaro, Luca ^d   Henrichs, Malte ^e   McCarthy, David T ^a   Freni, Gabriele ^f   Rauch, Wolfgang ^c   Deletic, Ana ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e Muenster University of Applied Sciences   (Germany)

^f Kore di Enna University   (Italy)

Author keywords

AMALGAM; Bayesian inference; GLUE; MCMC; MICA; Multi objective auto calibration; Parameter probability distributions; SCEM UA; Uncertainties; Urban drainage models

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GLUES; GLUING; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MERCURY AMALGAMS; MICA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STORMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

AUTO CALIBRATION; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; MCMC; SCEM-UA; UNCERTAINTIES; URBAN DRAINAGE MODEL;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

RAIN; RUNOFF; STORM WATER;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DRAINAGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STORMWATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

A MULTIALGORITHM GENETICALLY ADAPTIVE MULTIOBJECTIVE METHOD; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHUFFLED COMPLEX EVOLUTION METROPOLIS ALGORITHM; UNCERTAINTY; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATER QUANTITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84858996519     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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