Received: 29 Nov 2012 – Discussion started: 15 Jan 2013 – Revised: 04 Oct 2013 – Accepted: 09 Oct 2013 – Published: 12 Nov 2013
Abstract. Often a single hydrological model cannot capture the details of a complex rainfall–runoff relationship, and a possibility here is building specialized models to be responsible for a particular aspect of this relationship and combining them to form a committee model. This study extends earlier work of using fuzzy committees to combine hydrological models calibrated for different hydrological regimes – by considering the suitability of the different weighting function for objective functions and different class of membership functions used to combine the specialized models and compare them with the single optimal models.
