How does initial soil moisture influence the hydrological response? A case study from southern France

Uber, Magdalena; Vandervaere, Jean-Pierre; Zin, Isabella; Braud, Isabelle; Heistermann, Maik; Legoût, Cédric; Molinié, Gilles; Nord, Guillaume

doi:10.5194/hess-22-6127-2018

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How does initial soil moisture influence the hydrological response? A case study from southern France

Magdalena Uber, Jean-Pierre Vandervaere, Isabella Zin, Isabelle Braud, Maik Heistermann, Cédric Legoût, Gilles Molinié, and Guillaume Nord

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Short summary

We investigate how rivers in a flash-flood-prone region in southern France respond to rainfall depending on initial soil moisture. Therefore, high-resolution data of rainfall, river discharge and soil moisture were used. We find that during dry initial conditions, the rivers hardly respond even for heavy rain events, but for wet initial conditions, the response remains unpredictable: for some rain events almost all rainfall is transformed to discharge, whereas this is not the case for others.


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