Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4895-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4895-2017
Research article
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28 Sep 2017
Research article |  | 28 Sep 2017

Information content of stream level class data for hydrological model calibration

H. J. Ilja van Meerveld, Marc J. P. Vis, and Jan Seibert

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We tested the usefulness of stream level class data for hydrological model calibration. Only two stream level classes, e.g. above or below a rock in the stream, were already informative, particularly when the boundary was chosen at a high stream level. There was hardly any improvement in model performance when using more than five stream level classes. These results suggest that model based streamflow time series can be obtained from citizen science based water level class data.