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Research article
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22 Aug 2018
Research article |
| 22 Aug 2018
How can expert knowledge increase the realism of conceptual hydrological models? A case study based on the concept of dominant runoff process in the Swiss Pre-Alps
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, 8903,
Switzerland
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, 8057,
Switzerland
Massimiliano Zappa
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, 8903,
Switzerland
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Short summary
We developed 60 modelling chain combinations based on either experimentalists' (bottom-up) or modellers' (top-down) thinking and forced them with data of increasing accuracy. Results showed that the differences in performance arising from the forcing data were due to compensation effects. We also found that modellers' and experimentalists' concept of
model realismdiffers, and the level of detail a model should have to reproduce the processes expected must be agreed in advance.
We developed 60 modelling chain combinations based on either experimentalists' (bottom-up) or...
