A strategy for diagnosing and interpreting hydrological model nonstationarity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5090-5113

  Westra, Seth ^a   Thyer, Mark ^a   Leonard, Michael ^a   Kavetski, Dmitri ^a   Lambert, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

AIC; GR4J; hydrological modeling; model diagnostics; model selection; nonstationarity

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; DIGITAL STORAGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AIC; GR4J; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL DIAGNOSTICS; MODEL SELECTION; NON-STATIONARITIES;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 84904657706     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014719     Document Type: Article

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