Criteria for Evaluation of Watershed Models
- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
- Vol. 119 (3) , 429-442
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9437(1993)119:3(429)
Abstract
This report addresses the problem practicing engineers face as they try to evaluate the usefulness of watershed models for solving engineering problems. The report addresses the need for more complete parameter descriptions, unrealistic data needs, documentation, testing, and the lack of uniform criteria for evaluating a model's performance. The report makes recommendations for using some basic statistical measures to describe the performance of the models.Keywords
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