Accounting for seasonal dependence in hydrological model errors and prediction uncertainty

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5913-5929

  Li, Ming ^a   Wang, Q J ^a   Bennett, James ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

hierarchical modeling; seasonal dependence; streamflow prediction; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; REACTOR CORES; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CROSS-VALIDATION ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; ROBUST PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; STREAMFLOW PREDICTION; UNCERTAINTY;

ERRORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884342353     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20445     Document Type: Article

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