Computational procedure for evaluating sampling techniques on watershed model calibration

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Yen, Haw ^a,b   Jeong, Jaehak ^a   Tseng, Wen Hsiao ^c   Kim, Min Kyeong ^d   Records, Rosemary M ^e,f   Arabi, Mazdak ^f  

^a BLACKLAND RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior definition; Model evaluation; Optimization; Tree structured density estimation (TSDE)

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; WATERSHEDS;

AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION; BEHAVIOR DEFINITION; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; DENSITY ESTIMATION; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; MODEL EVALUATION; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CALIBRATION; FLOW MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

EAGLE CREEK [INDIANA]; INDIANA; MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84931034290     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001095     Document Type: Article

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