Hydrological model parameter instability: A source of additional uncertainty in estimating the hydrological impacts of climate change?

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 476, Issue , 2013, Pages 410-425

  Brigode, Pierre ^a   Oudin, Ludovic ^a   Perrin, Charles ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Procédés biotechnologiques au service de l'environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrological model calibration; Rainfall runoff modelling; Robustness; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHARACTERISTICS; EVALUATION APPROACH; FUTURE CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL PREDICTION; MODEL ROBUSTNESS; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; OPTIMAL SETS; PARAMETER SET; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELLING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; ROBUSTNESS OF MODEL; TWO SOURCES; UNCERTAINTY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MODEL STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; MODEL VALIDATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FRANCE;

EID: 84870980363     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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