Reply to comment by K. Beven et al. on "pursuing the method of multiple working hypotheses for hydrological modeling"

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Clark, Martyn P ^a   Kavetski, Dmitri ^b   Fenicia, Fabrizio ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

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EID: 84868630666     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012547     Document Type: Note

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