Comment on "pursuing the method of multiple working hypotheses for hydrological modeling" by P. Clark et al.

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Beven, Keith ^a,b,c   Smith, Paul ^a   Westerberg, Ida ^b,d   Freer, Jim ^e  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84868622950     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012wr012282     Document Type: Note

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