Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-105-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-105-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Research article
 | 
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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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.
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