Representation of spatial and temporal variability in large-domain hydrological models: case study for a mesoscale pre-Alpine basin

Melsen, Lieke; Teuling, Adriaan; Torfs, Paul; Zappa, Massimiliano; Mizukami, Naoki; Clark, Martyn; Uijlenhoet, Remko

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2207-2016

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2207-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2207-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

Research article

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08 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 08 Jun 2016

Representation of spatial and temporal variability in large-domain hydrological models: case study for a mesoscale pre-Alpine basin

Lieke Melsen, Adriaan Teuling, Paul Torfs, Massimiliano Zappa, Naoki Mizukami, Martyn Clark, and Remko Uijlenhoet

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RC1: 'Review of Melsen et al. "Representation of spatial and temporal variability [...]"', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Feb 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Lieke Melsen, 22 Feb 2016
RC2: 'Review of Melsen et al "Representation of spatial and temporal variability in large-domain hydrological..."', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'Short response to Anonymous Referee #2', Lieke Melsen, 09 Apr 2016

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (16 May 2016) by Markus Weiler

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ED: Publish as is (25 May 2016) by Markus Weiler

Short summary

In this study we investigated the sensitivity of a large-domain hydrological model for spatial and temporal resolution. We evaluated the results on a mesoscale catchment in Switzerland. Our results show that the model was hardly sensitive for the spatial resolution, which implies that spatial variability is likely underestimated. Our results provide a motivation to improve the representation of spatial variability in hydrological models in order to increase their credibility on a smaller scale.