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The first column represents the cal_fn input string used in many functions.

Calibration option Description Reference Package
Calibration_Michel Combination of a grid search with prior knowledge of parameter combination and a steepest descent local search Calibration_Michel airGR
steepest_descent Variant of Calibration_Michel with a monte carlo sampling with 100 trials instead of a grid search openQUARREL
montecarlo__random__1000 Monte carlo sampling with X trials (X is a variable, here 1000) runif stats
montecarlo__lhs__1000 Monte carlo sampling using a latin hyper cube randomLHS lhs
montecarlo__sobol__1000 Monte carlo sampling using sobol sampling sobol randtoolbox
nlminb Optimization using PORT routines nlminb stats
optim General-purpose Optimization optim stats
nlminb__random__100 Optimization using PORT routines starting with Monte carlo resampling nlminb stats
optim__random__100 General-purpose Optimization starting with Monte carlo resampling optim stats
DEoptim Evolutionary global optimization via the Differential Evolution algorithm DEoptim DEoptim
hydroPSO Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimisation hydroPSO hydroPSO
malschains Optimization with the MA-LS-Chains algorithm malschains Rmalschains