Impacts of measured data uncertainty on urban stormwater models

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 508, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-42

  Dotto, C B S ^a   Kleidorfer, M ^a   Deletic, A ^a   Rauch, W ^b   McCarthy, D T ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Input and calibration data; Modelling measurement errors; Parameter probability distributions; Sensitivity analysis; Urban drainage

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CALIBRATION DATA; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBAN DRAINAGE MODELLING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ERRORS; INFERENCE ENGINES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORMS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

CALIBRATION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STORMWATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN DRAINAGE;

EID: 84887762092     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.10.025     Document Type: Article

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