Improving process representation in conceptual hydrological model calibration using climate simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5044-5073

  Minville, Marie ^a   Cartier, Dominique ^b   Guay, Catherine ^a   Leclaire, Louis Alexandre ^a   Audet, Charles ^b   Le Digabel, Sébastien ^b   Merleau, James ^a  

^a HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b GERAD   (Canada)

Author keywords

automatic calibration; blackbox optimization; climate change; hydrological model; simulation based optimization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION;

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION; BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODEL CALIBRATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SIMULATION-BASED OPTIMIZATIONS;

HYDROLOGY;

EID: 84902706482     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013857     Document Type: Article

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