Articles | Volume 21, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-251-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-251-2017
Research article
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11 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 11 Jan 2017

Physically based distributed hydrological model calibration based on a short period of streamflow data: case studies in four Chinese basins

Wenchao Sun, Yuanyuan Wang, Guoqiang Wang, Xingqi Cui, Jingshan Yu, Depeng Zuo, and Zongxue Xu

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The possibility of using a short period of streamflow data (less than one year) to calibrate a physically based distributed hydrological model is evaluated. Contrary to the common understanding of using data of several years, it is shown that only using data covering several months could calibrate the model effectively, which indicates that this approach is valuable for solving the calibration problem of such models in data-sparse basins.