Calibration/Validation Publications

Developed by the NRES-21 Hydrology committee of ASABE.

Abbaspour, K.C., E. Rouholahnejad, S. Vaghefi, R. Srinivasan, H. Yang B. Kløve. 2015. A continental-scale hydrology and water quality model for Europe: Calibration and uncertainty of a high-resolution large-scale SWAT model. Journal of Hydrology. Vol. 524:733-752. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.03.027

Daggupati, P., H. Yen, M. J. White, R. Srinivasan, J. G. Arnold, C. S. Keitzer, S. P. Sowa. 2015. Impact of model development, calibration and validation decisions on hydrological simulations in West Lake Erie Basin. Hydrol. Process. (2015). DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10536

Harmel, R.D., P.K. Smith, K.W. Migliaccio, I. Chaubey, K.R. Douglas-Mankin, B. Benham, S. Shukla, R. Muñoz-Carpena, B.J. Robson. 2014. Evaluating, interpreting, and communicating performance of hydrologic/water quality models considering intended use: A review and recommendations. Environmental Modelling & Software 57 (2014) 40-51.

Arnold, J.G., D. N. Moriasi, P. W. Gassman, K. C. Abbaspour, M. J. White,R. Srinivasan, C. Santhi, R. D. Harmel, A. van Griensven, M. W. Van Liew, N. Kannan, M. K. Jha. 2012. SWAT: Model Use, Calibration, and Validation. Transactions of the ASABE. Vol. 55(4): 1491-1508.

Moriasi, D. N., B. N. Wilson, K. R. Douglas-Mankin, J. G. Arnold, P. H. Gowda. 2012. Hydrologic and water quality models: use, calibration, and validation. Transactions of the ASABE. Vol. 55(4): 1241-1247.

Zhang, X., R. Srinivasan, M. Van Liew. 2009. On the use of multi-algorithm, genetically adaptive multi-objective method for multi-site calibration of the SWAT model. Hydrol. Process. doi: 10.1002/hyp.7528

Zhang, X., Srinivasan, R., Bosch, D., Calibration and uncertainty analysis of the SWAT model using Genetic Algorithms and Bayesian Model Averaging, Journal of Hydrology (2009), doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.06.023

Zhang, X., R. Srinivasan, K. Zhao, M. Van Liew. 2008. Evaluation of global optimization algorithms for parameter calibration of a computationally intensive hydrologic model. Hydrol. Process. doi: 10.1002/hyp.7152

Moriasi, D. N., J. G. Arnold, M. W. Van Liew, R. L. Bingner, R. D. Harmel, T. L. Veith. 2007. Model evaluation guidelines for systematic quantification of accuracy in watershed simulations. Transactions of the ASABE. Vol. 50(3): 885-900.

Harmel, R. D., P.K. Smith. 2007. Consideration of measurement uncertainty in the evaluation of goodness-of-fit in hydrologic and water quality modeling. Journal of Hydrology. (2007) 337, 326-336.

Harmel, R. D., R. J. Cooper, R. M. Slade, R. L. Haney, J. G. Arnold. 2006. Cumulative uncertainty in measured streamflow and water quality data for small watersheds. Transactions of the ASABE. Vol. 49(3): 689-701.

Lenhart, T., K. Eckhardt, N. Fohrer, H.G. Frede. 2002. Comparison of two different approaches of sensitivity analysis. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. 27 (2002) 645–654.

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Duan, Q., S. Sorooshian, V. K. Gupta. 1994. Optimal use of the SCE-UA global optimization method for calibrating watershed models. Journal of Hydrology. 158 (1994) 265-284.

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