Optimizing hydrological consistency by incorporating hydrological signatures into model calibration objectives

M Shafii, BA Tolson - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The simulated outcome of a calibrated hydrologic model should be hydrologically consistent
with the measured response data. Hydrologic modelers typically calibrate models to …

When are multiobjective calibration trade‐offs in hydrologic models meaningful?

JB Kollat, PM Reed, T Wagener - Water Resources Research, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper applies a four‐objective calibration strategy focusing on peak flows, low flows,
water balance, and flashiness to 392 model parameter estimation experiment (MOPEX) …

Responses of hydrological model equifinality, uncertainty, and performance to multi-objective parameter calibration

Y Her, C Seong - Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2018 - iwaponline.com
Multi-objective calibration can help identify parameter sets that represent a hydrological
system and enable further constraining of the parameter space. Multi-objective calibration is …

A comparison of alternative multiobjective calibration strategies for hydrological modeling

F Fenicia, HHG Savenije, P Matgen… - Water Resources …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A conceptual hydrological model structure contains several parameters that have to be
estimated through matching observed and modeled watershed behavior in a calibration …

Sensitivity-guided reduction of parametric dimensionality for multi-objective calibration of watershed models

K Van Werkhoven, T Wagener, P Reed… - Advances in Water …, 2009 - Elsevier
Problem complexity for watershed model calibration is heavily dependent on the number of
parameters that can be identified during model calibration. This study investigates the use of …

Use of an entropy‐based metric in multiobjective calibration to improve model performance

IG Pechlivanidis, B Jackson… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Parameter estimation for hydrological models is complicated for many reasons, one of which
is the arbitrary emphasis placed, by most traditional measures of fit, on various magnitudes …

A new selection metric for multiobjective hydrologic model calibration

M Asadzadeh, BA Tolson… - Water Resources Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A novel selection metric called Convex Hull Contribution (CHC) is introduced for solving
multiobjective (MO) optimization problems with Pareto fronts that can be accurately …

Incorporating multiple observations for distributed hydrologic model calibration: An approach using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm and clustering

ST Khu, H Madsen, F Di Pierro - Advances in Water Resources, 2008 - Elsevier
The use of distributed data for model calibration is becoming more popular in the advent of
the availability of spatially distributed observations. Hydrological model calibration has …

One decade of multi-objective calibration approaches in hydrological modelling: a review

A Efstratiadis, D Koutsoyiannis - Hydrological Sciences Journal …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
One decade after the first publications on multi-objective calibration of hydrological models,
we summarize the experience gained so far by underlining the key perspectives offered by …

Watershed model calibration using multi-objective optimization and multi-site averaging

X Li, DE Weller, TE Jordan - Journal of Hydrology, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent advances in optimizing watershed model calibration have focused mainly on
incorporating multiple objective measures of model performance and improving optimization …