Integrated uncertainty assessment of discharge predictions with a statistical error model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4866-4884

  Honti, M ^a   Stamm, C ^a   Reichert, P ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; bias; conceptual rainfall runoff model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFERENCE ENGINES; RAIN; RUNOFF; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BIAS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTIES; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RESPONSE CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL ERROR MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISCHARGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881072695     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20374     Document Type: Article

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