Model calibration criteria for estimating ecological flow characteristics

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2358-2381

  Vis, Marc ^a   Knight, Rodney ^b   Pool, Sandra ^a   Wolfe, William ^b   Seibert, Jan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Catchments; Ecological flow characteristics; Hydrological modeling; Model calibration; Objective functions; Parameter uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGICAL FLOWS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL CALIBRATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY;

STREAM FLOW;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 84938680086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7052358     Document Type: Article

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