APPLICATION OF AN AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION SCHEME FOR URBAN RAINFALL - RUNOFF MODELS IN MOUSE

This study presents an automatic calibration procedure applicable specially for urban rainfall - runoff models. The shuffled complex evolution (SCE) method is used as an optimisation algorithm to estimate the model parameters of the MOUSE software package. The surface runoff model is exemplified by the time/area model. The comparison of calibration results of automatic and manual calibration procedures is discussed. The calibration results show the potential of an applied automated calibration scheme as a viable alternative to the manual approach.