The transferability of hydrological models under nonstationary climatic conditions

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1239-1254

  Li, C Z ^a,b,c   Zhang, L ^b   Wang, H ^a   Zhang, Y Q ^b   Yu, F L ^a   Yan, D H ^a  

^a CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CALIBRATED MODEL; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; EQUIFINALITY; FUTURE CLIMATE; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODIFIED INDICES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NONSTATIONARY; NONUNIQUENESS; OBSERVED DATA; PARAMETER INSTABILITY; PARAMETER STABILITY; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SPLIT-SAMPLE; WATER BALANCE;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL TESTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

CATCHMENTS;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMFLOW;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84860493415     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-1239-2012     Document Type: Article

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