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dc.contributor.authorRakovec, O.
dc.contributor.authorHill, Mary C.
dc.contributor.authorClark, M. P.
dc.contributor.authorWeerts, A. H.
dc.contributor.authorTeuling, A. J.
dc.contributor.authorUijlenhoet, R.
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-22T18:02:24Z
dc.date.available2015-12-22T18:02:24Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-17
dc.identifier.citationRakovec, O., M. C. Hill, M. P. Clark, A. H. Weerts, A. J. Teuling, and R. Uijlenhoet. "Distributed Evaluation of Local Sensitivity Analysis (DELSA), with Application to Hydrologic Models." Water Resources Research Water Resour. Res. 50.1 (2014): 409-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013WR014063en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/19328
dc.descriptionThis is the published version. Copyright 2014 American Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a hybrid local-global sensitivity analysis method termed the Distributed Evaluation of Local Sensitivity Analysis (DELSA), which is used here to identify important and unimportant parameters and evaluate how model parameter importance changes as parameter values change. DELSA uses derivative-based “local” methods to obtain the distribution of parameter sensitivity across the parameter space, which promotes consideration of sensitivity analysis results in the context of simulated dynamics. This work presents DELSA, discusses how it relates to existing methods, and uses two hydrologic test cases to compare its performance with the popular global, variance-based Sobol' method. The first test case is a simple nonlinear reservoir model with two parameters. The second test case involves five alternative “bucket-style” hydrologic models with up to 14 parameters applied to a medium-sized catchment (200 km2) in the Belgian Ardennes. Results show that in both examples, Sobol' and DELSA identify similar important and unimportant parameters, with DELSA enabling more detailed insight at much lower computational cost. For example, in the real-world problem the time delay in runoff is the most important parameter in all models, but DELSA shows that for about 20% of parameter sets it is not important at all and alternative mechanisms and parameters dominate. Moreover, the time delay was identified as important in regions producing poor model fits, whereas other parameters were identified as more important in regions of the parameter space producing better model fits. The ability to understand how parameter importance varies through parameter space is critical to inform decisions about, for example, additional data collection and model development. The ability to perform such analyses with modest computational requirements provides exciting opportunities to evaluate complicated models as well as many alternative models.en_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.titleDistributed Evaluation of Local Sensitivity Analysis (DELSA), with application to hydrologic modelsen_US
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorHill, Mary C.
kusw.kudepartmentGeologyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/2013WR014063
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0545-3378
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.
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