Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-105-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-105-2015
Research article
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07 Jan 2015
Research article |  | 07 Jan 2015

Hydrological hysteresis and its value for assessing process consistency in catchment conceptual models

O. Fovet, L. Ruiz, M. Hrachowitz, M. Faucheux, and C. Gascuel-Odoux

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Sep 2014) by Nunzio Romano
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (22 Nov 2014) by Nunzio Romano
AR by Ophelie Fovet on behalf of the Authors (28 Nov 2014)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (02 Dec 2014) by Nunzio Romano
AR by Ophelie Fovet on behalf of the Authors (08 Dec 2014)
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Short summary
We studied the annual hysteretic patterns observed between stream flow and water storage in the saturated and unsaturated zones of a hillslope and a riparian zone. We described these signatures using a hysteresis index and then used this to assess conceptual hydrological models. This led us to identify four hydrological periods and a clearly distinct behaviour between riparian and hillslope groundwaters and to provide new information about the model performances.