Quantile hydrologic model selection and model structure deficiency assessment: 1. Theory

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5631-5657

  Pande, Saket ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

model structure deficiency; quantile model selection; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MODEL STRUCTURES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL SELECTION PROBLEM; OVERLAPPING INFORMATION; QUANTILE MODELS; SPECIFIC LOSS FUNCTION; UNCERTAINTY;

FORECASTING;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 84883738317     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20411     Document Type: Review

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