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Finding process-behavioural parameterisations of a hydrological model using a multi-step process-based calibration and evaluation scheme
Department of Physical Geography, University Trier, Trier, 54296, Germany
Hadysa Mohajerani
Department of Physical Geography, University Trier, Trier, 54296, Germany
Markus C. Casper
Department of Physical Geography, University Trier, Trier, 54296, Germany
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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.
This study presents a process-behavioural calibration approach for water balance models. The...
