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23 Oct 2020
Research article |
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| 23 Oct 2020
Hierarchical sensitivity analysis for a large-scale process-based hydrological model applied to an Amazonian watershed
Haifan Liu
School of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Heng Dai
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi 830011, China
Institute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Jie Niu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Bill X. Hu
Institute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Dongwei Gui
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi 830011, China
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Ming Ye
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Xingyuan Chen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
Chuanhao Wu
Institute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Jin Zhang
Institute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
William Riley
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Short summary
It is still challenging to apply the quantitative and comprehensive global sensitivity analysis method to complex large-scale process-based hydrological models because of variant uncertainty sources and high computational cost. This work developed a new tool and demonstrate its implementation to a pilot example for comprehensive global sensitivity analysis of large-scale hydrological modelling. This method is mathematically rigorous and can be applied to other large-scale hydrological models.
It is still challenging to apply the quantitative and comprehensive global sensitivity analysis...
