Exploring the hydrological robustness of model-parameter values with alpha shapes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6700-6715

  Guerrero, José Luis ^a,b   Westerberg, Ida K ^a,c,d   Halldin, Sven ^a   Lundin, Lars Christer ^a   Xu, Chong Yu ^e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS   (Honduras)

^c IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

alpha shape; parameter estimation; robustness

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-SHAPES; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; COMPUTATIONAL DEFICIENCY; ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS; HYDROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; THREE-PARAMETER MODELS; TRIAL-AND-ERROR METHOD;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CALIBRATION; DATA QUALITY; DISCHARGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

HONDURAS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84885538041     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20533     Document Type: Article

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