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Research article
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20 Apr 2018
Research article |
| 20 Apr 2018
| 20 Apr 2018
Analytical flow duration curves for summer streamflow in Switzerland
Ana Clara Santos
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Maria Manuela Portela
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Andrea Rinaldo
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Edile e Ambientale, Universitá degli studi di
Padova, Padua, Italy
Bettina Schaefli
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Seasonal snow cover decreases young water fractions in high Alpine catchments N. Ceperley et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13937
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- Hydrodynamics of a high Alpine catchment characterized by four natural tracers A. Michelon et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1403-2023
- Multi-instrumental monitoring of snowmelt infiltration in Vallon de Nant, Swiss Alps J. Eeckman et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4093-2025
- Towards a conceptualization of the hydrological processes behind changes of young water fraction with elevation: a focus on mountainous alpine catchments A. Gentile et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2301-2023
- Estimation of streamflow recession parameters: New insights from an analytic streamflow distribution model A. Santos et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13425
- Hotspot analysis and spatial correlation of river hydrological response based of FDC-derived indices in Northwest Iran L. Babaie et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-025-01197-5
- A multi‐scale study of the dominant catchment characteristics impacting low‐flow metrics M. Floriancic et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14462
- Evaluation of seasonal catchment dynamic storage components using an analytical streamflow duration curve model C. Huang & H. Yeh https://doi.org/10.1186/s42834-022-00161-8
- Constructing a geography of heavy-tailed flood distributions: insights from common streamflow dynamics H. Wang et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1525-2025
- On the Effect of Nonlinear Recessions on Low Flow Variability: Diagnostic of an Analytical Model for Annual Flow Duration Curves N. Karst et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024912
- Decorrelation is not dissociation: There is no means to entirely decouple the Brutsaert-Nieber parameters in streamflow recession analysis B. Biswal https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103822
- Extreme flooding controlled by stream network organization and flow regime S. Basso et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01155-w
- Modeling and computation of an integral operator Riccati equation for an infinite-dimensional stochastic differential equation governing streamflow discharge H. Yoshioka et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2022.09.009
- Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment T. Müller et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-6029-2022
- Regional Analysis of Flow Duration Curves through Support Vector Regression M. Vafakhah & S. Khosrobeigi Bozchaloei https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-019-02445-y
- Runoff recession features in an analytical probabilistic streamflow model R. Arai et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125745
- Seasonal snow cover decreases young water fractions in high Alpine catchments N. Ceperley et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13937
- On the regional-scale variability in flow duration curves in Peninsular India P. Dey et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1493-2024
- PHEV! The PHysically-based Extreme Value distribution of river flows S. Basso et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3d59
- Inferring heavy tails of flood distributions through hydrograph recession analysis H. Wang et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4369-2023
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Short summary
This paper assesses the performance of an analytical modeling framework for probability distributions for summer streamflow of 25 Swiss catchments that present a wide range of hydroclimatic regimes, including snow- and icemelt-influenced streamflows. Two versions of the model were tested: linear and nonlinear. The results show that the model performs well for summer discharges under all analyzed regimes and that model performance varies with mean catchment elevation.
This paper assesses the performance of an analytical modeling framework for probability...
