Calibration of a rainfall-runoff model at regional scale by optimising river discharge statistics: Performance analysis for the average/low flow regime

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 42-44, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-84

  Lombardi, Laura ^a   Toth, Elena ^a   Castellarin, Attilio ^a   Montanari, Alberto ^a   Brath, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Low flows; Multi objective optimisation; Rainfall runoff; Regional calibration; Runoff variability

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ITALY; FLOW REGIMES; HYDROGRAPHS; LOW FLOW; MODEL PARAMETERS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMISATIONS; PARAMETER SET; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL RUNOFF; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; REGIONAL SCALE; REGIONALISATION; RIVER BASINS; RIVER DISCHARGE; TIME DOMAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RUNOFF; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; LOW FLOW; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

ITALY;

EID: 84860185608     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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