The quantity and quality of information in hydrologic models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 524-538

  Nearing, Grey S ^a   Gupta, Hoshin V ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian learning; induction; information theory; model benchmarking; model information; system identification

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION THEORY;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; BAYESIAN LEARNING; EVALUATION ACTIVITY; INDUCTION; MODEL BENCHMARKING; MODEL INFORMATIONS; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; QUALITY OF INFORMATION;

BENCHMARKING;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENCHMARKING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 85027958325     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015895     Document Type: Article

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