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Biblioteca Performance of the COSERO precipitation–runoff model under non-stationary conditions in basins with different climates

Performance of the COSERO precipitation–runoff model under non-stationary conditions in basins with different climates

Performance of the COSERO precipitation–runoff model under non-stationary conditions in basins with different climates

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Date of publication
Diciembre 2015
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AGRIS:US201500212092
Pages
1374-1393

This study is a contribution to a model intercomparison experiment initiated during a workshop at the 2013 IAHS conference in Göteborg, Sweden. We present discharge simulations with the conceptual precipitation–runoff model COSERO in 11 basins located under different climates in Europe, Africa and Australia. All of the basins exhibit some form of non-stationary conditions, due, for example, to warming, droughts or land-cover change. The evaluation of the daily discharge simulations focuses on the overall model performance and its decomposition into three components measuring temporal dynamics, mean flow volume and distribution of flows. Calibration performance is similarly high as in previous COSERO applications. However, when looking at evaluation periods independent of the calibration, the model performance drops considerably, mainly due to severely biased discharge simulations in semi-arid basins with strong non-stationarity in rainfall. Simulations are more robust in European basins with humid climates. This highlights the fact that hydrological models frequently fail when simulations are required outside of calibration conditions in basins with non-stationary conditions. As a consequence, calibration periods should be sufficiently long to include both wet and dry periods, which should yield more robust predictions.

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Kling, Harald
Stanzel, Philipp
Fuchs, Martin
Nachtnebel, Hans-Peter

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