Towards a comprehensive assessment of model structural adequacy

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Gupta, Hoshin V ^a   Clark, Martyn P ^b   Vrugt, Jasper A ^c,d   Abramowitz, Gab ^e   Ye, Ming ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE MODELS; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE; MODEL EVALUATION; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; STATISTICAL TREATMENT; UNSATURATED ZONE;

GROUNDWATER; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

BRIDGE DECKS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; HYDROSPHERE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARAMETERIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 84865728764     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011044     Document Type: Review

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