Improved Bayesian multimodeling: Integration of copulas and Bayesian model averaging

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9586-9603

  Madadgar, Shahrbanou ^a,b   Moradkhani, Hamid ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model averaging; copula; forecast post processing; uncertainty in hydrologic forecasts

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; FORECASTING; METADATA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY DENSITY; COPULA; MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; MULTIVARIATE FUNCTION; POST PROCESSING; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RUNOFF;

EID: 85027932033     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015965     Document Type: Article

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