Improving the theoretical underpinnings of process-based hydrologic models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 2350-2365

  Clark, Martyn P ^a   Schaefli, Bettina ^b,c   Schymanski, Stanislaus J ^d   Samaniego, Luis ^e   Luce, Charles H ^f   Jackson, Bethanna M ^g   Freer, Jim E ^h   Arnold, Jeffrey R ⁱ   Moore, R Dan ^j   Istanbulluoglu, Erkan ^k   Ceola, Serena ^l  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^f ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^g VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^k University of Washington   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

hydrologic theory; model evaluation; multiple hypotheses; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CURRENT MODELS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGIC SCIENCE; HYDROLOGIC THEORY; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL-BASED OPC; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS; UNCERTAINTY;

WATER RESOURCES;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODEL TEST; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNDERPINNING;

EID: 84964317505     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017910     Document Type: Article

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