Articles | Volume 25, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5703-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5703-2021
Technical note
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08 Nov 2021
Technical note |  | 08 Nov 2021

Technical note: PMR – a proxy metric to assess hydrological model robustness in a changing climate

Paul Royer-Gaspard, Vazken Andréassian, and Guillaume Thirel

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Most evaluation studies based on the differential split-sample test (DSST) endorse the consensus that rainfall–runoff models lack climatic robustness. In this technical note, we propose a new performance metric to evaluate model robustness without applying the DSST and which can be used with a single hydrological model calibration. Our work makes it possible to evaluate the temporal transferability of any hydrological model, including uncalibrated models, at a very low computational cost.
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