Retraction to: Landslides (2011) 8:81–89

DOI 10.1007/s10346-010-0223-y

The Editors of the Journal of Landslides in agreement with the authors and the publisher hereby retract this article.

The article is retracted due to a significant originality issue arising from the following paper.

Hamid Moradkhani, Soroosh Sorooshian, Hoshin V. Gupta, Paul R. Houser (2005) Dual state–parameter estimation of hydrological models using ensemble Kalman filter. Advance in Water Resources 28:135–147. DOI 10.1016/j.advwatres.2004.09.002