Sensitivity analysis of SCHADEX extreme flood estimations to observed hydrometeorological variability

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 353-370

  Brigode, Pierre ^a,b   Bernardara, Pietro ^a   Paquet, Emmanuel ^c   Gailhard, Joël ^c   Garavaglia, Federico ^c   Merz, Ralf ^d   Mic̈ovic̈, Zoran ^e   Lawrence, Deborah ^f   Ribstein, Pierre ^b  

^a Electricité de France   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c DTG   (France)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e BC HYDRO   (Canada)

^f NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

Author keywords

extreme floods; model calibration; sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PERIODS; CALIBRATION PROCESS; EXTREME FLOOD; HIGH SENSITIVITY; MODEL CALIBRATION; NON-STATIONARITIES; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; HAZARDS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ESTIMATION;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CALIBRATION; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84896826338     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013687     Document Type: Article

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