Are we unnecessarily constraining the agility of complex process-based models?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 716-728

  Mendoza, Pablo A ^a,b,c   Clark, Martyn P ^c   Barlage, Michael ^c   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a,b   Samaniego, Luis ^d   Abramowitz, Gab ^e   Gupta, Hoshin ^f  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrology; model agility; process based models; sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

EVALUATION APPROACH; HYDROLOGIC CONNECTIVITY; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMPLEXITY; CONNECTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PHILOSOPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85027919554     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015820     Document Type: Review

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