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Hydrologic Model Calibration
last updated: July 2, 2007


Training

'Calibration of Conceptual Models for Use in River Forecasting' by Eric Anderson, August 2002

Sacramento Model Calibration Graphics from NERFC Workshop, March 9-13, 1998.

Effects of Consistency Corrections on Calibration and Simulation, by Eric Anderson and NWRFC) (currently not available)

Snow-17 Training Exercises and Lectures from NERFC Snow Workshop, August 5-8, 2003: contact Mike Smith for a CD containing these.

Calibration Assistance Program (CAP)

Paper Submitted to 2001 ESRI User Conference
CAP User Manual v.1.2 (Arcview-based)

Interactive Calibration Program (ICP)

Suggested Enhancements and Changes to ICP, by Eric Anderson, 2003 (currently not available)

Enhanced Calibration System

Functional Requirements for an Enhanced Calibration System, by Eric Anderson, 2003 (currently not available)

Software
Program for statistical analysis of two time series.
This program can be used to compute overall and event goodness-of-fit statistics between two time series
Click here for documentation
Click here for Linux version of executable
Click here for HP version of executable
Recent Publications

‘Hydrologic Model Calibration in the National Weather Service’, Michael Smith, Don Laurine, Victor Koren, Seann Reed, and Ziya Zhang. In ‘Calibration of Watershed Models’, Water Science and Application 6, American Geophysical Union, 2003. Editors: Qingyun Duan, Hoshin Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian, Alain Rousseau, and Richard Turcotte, 133-152.

‘Use of a Priori Parameters Estimates in the Derivation of Spatially Consistent Parameter Sets of Rainfall-runoff Models’, Victor Koren, Michael Smith, and Qingyun Duan. In ‘Calibration of Watershed Models’, Water Science and Application 6, American Geophysical Union, 2003. Editors: Qingyun Duan, Hoshin Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian, Alain Rousseau, and Richard Turcotte, 239-254.

‘Global Optimization for Watershed Model Calibration’, Qingyun Duan. In ‘Calibration of Watershed Models’, Water Science and Application 6, American Geophysical Union, 2003. Editors: Qingyun Duan, Hoshin Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian, Alain Rousseau, and Richard Turcotte, 89-104.

‘Ordered Physics-Based Parameter Adjustment of a Distributed Model’, Baxter Vieux and Fekadu Moreda. In ‘Calibration of Watershed Models’, Water Science and Application 6, American Geophysical Union, 2003. Editors: Qingyun Duan, Hoshin Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian, Alain Rousseau, and Richard Turcotte, 267-282



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