Calibrating a hydrological model in stage space to account for rating curve uncertainties: general framework and key challenges

Hydrological models are typically calibrated with discharge time series derived from a rating curve, which is subject to parametric and structural uncertainties that are usually neglected. In this work, we develop a Bayesian approach to probabilistically represent parametric and structural rating curve errors in the calibration of hydrological models. To achieve this, we couple the hydrological model with the inverse rating curve yielding the...