Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2929-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2929-2016
Research article
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20 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 20 Jul 2016

Mapping dominant runoff processes: an evaluation of different approaches using similarity measures and synthetic runoff simulations

Manuel Antonetti, Rahel Buss, Simon Scherrer, Michael Margreth, and Massimiliano Zappa

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We evaluated three automatic mapping approaches of dominant runoff processes (DRPs) with different complexity using similarity measures and synthetic runoff simulations. The most complex DRP maps were the most similar to the reference maps. Runoff simulations derived from the simpler DRP maps were more uncertain due to inaccuracies in the input data and rather coarse simplifications in the mapping criteria. It would thus be worthwhile trying to obtain DRP maps that are as realistic as possible.