Watershed model parameter estimation and uncertainty in data-limited environments

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 51, Issue , 2014, Pages 84-93

  Fonseca, André ^a   Ames, Daniel P ^b   Yang, Ping ^c   Botelho, Cidália ^a   Boaventura, Rui ^a   Vilar, Vítor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b Brigham Young University   (United States)

^c TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GLUE; HSPF; Monte Carlo simulations; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty assessment; Watershed modeling

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; HSPF; NASH-SUTCLIFFE COEFFICIENT; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT; WATER QUALITY SIMULATION; WATERSHED MODELING; WATERSHED-SCALE HYDROLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLUES; GLUING; LAND USE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84886016171     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.09.023     Document Type: Article

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