The impact of initial conditions on convection-permitting simulations of a flood event over complex mountainous terrain

Li, Lu; Pontoppidan, Marie; Sobolowski, Stefan; Senatore, Alfonso

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-771-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-771-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-771-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 2

Research article

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19 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 19 Feb 2020

The impact of initial conditions on convection-permitting simulations of a flood event over complex mountainous terrain

Lu Li, Marie Pontoppidan, Stefan Sobolowski, and Alfonso Senatore

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1', Lu Li, 20 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Lu Li, 20 Dec 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (01 Jan 2020) by Jan Seibert

AR by Lu Li on behalf of the Authors (02 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (12 Jan 2020) by Jan Seibert

AR by Lu Li on behalf of the Authors (13 Jan 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

We assessed the impact of initial conditions on convection-permitting simulations of a flood event over mountainous terrain. The calibrated convection-permitting model performs better than the simpler conceptual model. Discharge is slightly more sensitive to spin-up time than precipitation due to the influence of soil moisture. A maximum of 0.5 m of snow is converted to runoff irrespective of the initial snow depth, and this snowmelt contributes to discharge mostly during peak flow period.