Articles | Volume 29, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3503-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3503-2025
Research article
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04 Aug 2025
Research article |  | 04 Aug 2025

Finding process-behavioural parameterisations of a hydrological model using a multi-step process-based calibration and evaluation scheme

Moritz M. Heuer, Hadysa Mohajerani, and Markus C. Casper

Data sets

moritzheuer/MultiVariableCalibration: Published Version Moritz M. Heuer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14841047

Model code and software

moritzheuer/MultiVariableCalibration: Published Version Moritz M. Heuer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14841047

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Short summary
This study presents a process-behavioural calibration approach for water balance models. The different calibration steps aim at calibrating different hydrological processes: evapotranspiration, the runoff partitioning into surface runoff, interflow, and groundwater recharge, as well as the groundwater behaviour. This allows for selection of a model parameterisation that correctly predicts the discharge at the catchment outlet and simultaneously correctly depicts the underlying hydrological processes.
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