Calibration of Erosion Models

Handbook of Erosion Modelling

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 33-51

  Jetten, V G ^a   Maneta, M P ^b  

^a International Institute of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration aims, improving predictive quality and fitness for use of erosion models; Calibration and erosion model improvement focus of model users and model builders; Calibration examples, based on automatic parameter estimation; Calibration of catchment scale models; Calibration of models, on different spatial and temporal scales objectives, different for each scale; Erosion model calibration; Erosion models, compared and tested in orchestrated way, using datasets for calibration and validation; GCTE catchment model comparison test; Model acronyms and references; Modeling purpose, closely dictating exactly what one is calibrating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874724233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328455.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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