Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 29, issue 3
Articles | Volume 29, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-683-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-683-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 29, issue 3
Research article
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05 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 05 Feb 2025

Lack of robustness of hydrological models: a large-sample diagnosis and an attempt to identify hydrological and climatic drivers

Léonard Santos, Vazken Andréassian, Torben O. Sonnenborg, Göran Lindström, Alban de Lavenne, Charles Perrin, Lila Collet, and Guillaume Thirel

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This work investigates how hydrological models are transferred to a period in which climate conditions are different to the ones of the period in which they were set up. The robustness assessment test built to detect dependencies between model error and climatic drivers was applied to three hydrological models in 352 catchments in Denmark, France and Sweden. Potential issues are seen in a significant number of catchments for the models, even though the catchments differ for each model.
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