Impact Assessment of Rainfall-Runoff Simulations on the Flow Duration Curve of the Upper Indus River—A Comparison of Data-Driven and Hydrologic Models

As a major component of the hydrologic cycle, rainfall runoff plays a key role in water resources management and sustainable development. Conceptual models of the rainfall-runoff process are governed by parameters that can rarely be directly determined for use in distributed models, but should be either inferred through good judgment or calibrated against the historical record. Artificial neural network (ANN) models require comparatively fewer...