Optimizing hydrological consistency by incorporating hydrological signatures into model calibration objectives

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3796-3814

  Shafii, Mahyar ^a   Tolson, Bryan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AMALGAM; hydrological modeling; hydrological signatures; multiobjective calibration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; MERCURY AMALGAMS; OPTIMIZATION;

GOODNESS-OF-FIT MEASURE; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL SIGNATURES; LEVEL OF CONSISTENCIES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE CALIBRATION; MULTI-OBJECTIVE MODELING; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 85027944980     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016520     Document Type: Article

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