[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty quantification in watershed hydrology: Which method to use?

A Gupta, RS Govindaraju - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Different paradigms have emerged in watershed hydrology to deal with the uncertainties
associated with modeling with both similarities and differences in philosophies and …

The hydrologist's guide to Bayesian model selection, averaging and combination

M Höge, A Guthke, W Nowak - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Model selection and model averaging have become popular tools to address
conceptual uncertainty in hydro (geo) logical modeling. Within the last two decades, many …

Predicting nonstationary flood frequencies: Evidence supports an updated stationarity thesis in the U nited S tates

A Luke, JA Vrugt, A AghaKouchak… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nonstationary extreme value analysis (NEVA) can improve the statistical representation of
observed flood peak distributions compared to stationary (ST) analysis, but management of …

Probabilistic hydrological post-processing at scale: Why and how to apply machine-learning quantile regression algorithms

G Papacharalampous, H Tyralis, A Langousis… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
We conduct a large-scale benchmark experiment aiming to advance the use of machine-
learning quantile regression algorithms for probabilistic hydrological post-processing “at …

[HTML][HTML] On the use of distribution-adaptive likelihood functions: Generalized and universal likelihood functions, scoring rules and multi-criteria ranking

JA Vrugt, DY de Oliveira, G Schoups, CGH Diks - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the formulation of an adequate likelihood function in the
application of Bayesian epistemology to uncertainty quantification of hydrologic models. We …

Improving simulation efficiency of MCMC for inverse modeling of hydrologic systems with a Kalman‐inspired proposal distribution

J Zhang, JA Vrugt, X Shi, G Lin, L Wu… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bayesian analysis is widely used in science and engineering for real‐time forecasting,
decision making, and to help unravel the processes that explain the observed data. These …

Quantification of predictive uncertainty in hydrological modelling by harnessing the wisdom of the crowd: A large-sample experiment at monthly timescale

G Papacharalampous, H Tyralis… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Predictive hydrological uncertainty can be quantified by using ensemble methods. If properly
formulated, these methods can offer improved predictive performance by combining multiple …

Joint analysis of input and parametric uncertainties in watershed water quality modeling: A formal Bayesian approach

F Han, Y Zheng - Advances in Water Resources, 2018 - Elsevier
Significant Input uncertainty is a major source of error in watershed water quality (WWQ)
modeling. It remains challenging to address the input uncertainty in a rigorous Bayesian …

Probabilistic sensitivity analysis with dependent variables: Covariance‐based decomposition of hydrologic models

Y Gao, A Sahin, JA Vrugt - Water Resources Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Variance‐based analysis has emerged as method of choice for quantifying the sensitivity of
the output, y, of a scalar‐valued square‐integrable function, f∈ L2 (), to its d≥ 1 input …

Bayesian3 Active Learning for the Gaussian Process Emulator Using Information Theory

S Oladyshkin, F Mohammadi, I Kroeker, W Nowak - Entropy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gaussian process emulators (GPE) are a machine learning approach that replicates
computational demanding models using training runs of that model. Constructing such a …