Tradeoffs among watershed model calibration targets for parameter estimation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Price, Katie ^a   Purucker, S Thomas ^a   Kraemer, Stephen R ^a   Babendreier, Justin E ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION TARGETS; FLOOD PEAK; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW MODES; FLOW VARIABILITY; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING OBJECTIVES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; PARAMETER RANGE; PARAMETER SET; PARETO OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE OBJECTIVE; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; STREAMFLOW SIMULATIONS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; WATERSHED MODELS;

CALIBRATION; COMMERCE; FLOOD CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STREAM FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

FLOOD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SIMULATION; STREAMFLOW; TRADE-OFF; WATERSHED;

EID: 84868332781     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012005     Document Type: Article

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