Articles | Volume 22, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5259-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5259-2018
Research article
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15 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 15 Oct 2018

Rainfall disaggregation for hydrological modeling: is there a need for spatial consistence?

Hannes Müller-Thomy, Markus Wallner, and Kristian Förster

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Rainfall time series are disaggregated from daily to hourly values to be used for rainfall–runoff modeling of mesoscale catchments. Spatial rainfall consistency is implemented afterwards using simulated annealing. With the calibration process applied, observed runoff statistics (e.g., summer and winter peak flows) are represented well. However, rainfall datasets with under- or over-estimation of spatial consistency lead to similar results, so the need for a good representation can be questioned.