Considering rating curve uncertainty in water level predictions

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4415-4427

  Sikorska, A E ^a,b   Scheidegger, A ^a   Banasik, K ^b   Rieckermann, J ^a  

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

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION; CALIBRATION OF RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; WATER LEVEL PREDICTION;

CALIBRATION; FORECASTING; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

RATING;

CATCHMENT; DATA SET; FLOOD; HYDROMETRY; PREDICTION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RATING CURVE; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

POLAND;

EID: 84887631554     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-4415-2013     Document Type: Article

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