Reducing hydrologic model uncertainty in monthly streamflow predictions using multimodel combination

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Li, Weihua ^a   Sankarasubramanian, A ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE MODELS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ERROR VARIANCE; HETEROSCEDASTIC; HIGHER WEIGHT; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MISSPECIFICATION; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL PREDICTION; MONTHLY FLOW; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL COMBINATION; MULTIPLE MODELS; OPTIMAL MODEL; OPTIMAL WEIGHT; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; VIC MODEL;

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; PREDICTION; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871377620     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011380     Document Type: Article

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