Interactive Calibration Program (ICP)

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The calibration of conceptual hydrologic models is a time-consumming process.
MCP3 (the Manual Calibration Program) enables a user to make calibration runs for a single basin one set of parameters at a time.
ICP was developed to make the calibration process faster and easier.



The ICP is a graphical interface that allows the user to:

• maintain three versions of the control deck (i.e. run parameters) in an orderly way
• run MCP so that it produces output for the ICP
• graphically display the results

The user can then:

• check the effect of the suite of parameters
• edit the control deck
• rerun MCP testing the new suite of values

M.Smith, D.Laurine, V.Koren, Z.Zhang,"Hydrologic Model Calibration in the NWS", Advances in Calibration of Watershed Models, Chap 10, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, December 15-19, 2000, San Francisco, CA, EROS Transactions, AGU, 81 (48)