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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-127-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-127-2025
Research article
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14 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 14 Jan 2025

Improving the hydrological consistency of a process-based solute-transport model by simultaneous calibration of streamflow and stream concentrations

Jordy Salmon-Monviola, Ophélie Fovet, and Markus Hrachowitz

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To increase the predictive power of hydrological models, it is necessary to improve their consistency, i.e. their physical realism, which is measured by the ability of the model to reproduce observed system dynamics. Using a model to represent the dynamics of water and nitrate and dissolved organic carbon concentrations in an agricultural catchment, we showed that using solute-concentration data for calibration is useful to improve the hydrological consistency of the model.
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