Articles | Volume 27, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3505-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3505-2023
Research article
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06 Oct 2023
Research article |  | 06 Oct 2023

To what extent does river routing matter in hydrological modeling?

Nicolás Cortés-Salazar, Nicolás Vásquez, Naoki Mizukami, Pablo A. Mendoza, and Ximena Vargas

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This paper shows how important river models can be for water resource applications that involve hydrological models and, in particular, parameter calibration. To this end, we conduct numerical experiments in a pilot basin using a combination of hydrologic model simulations obtained from a large sample of parameter sets and different routing methods. We find that routing can affect streamflow simulations, even at monthly time steps; the choice of parameters; and relevant streamflow metrics.
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