Temporal Variation And Scaling Of Parameters For A Monthly Hydrologic Model

Keywords

Monthly water balance model; Rainfall; Seasonality of model parameters; Temporal scaling of model parameter; Vegetation

Abstract

The temporal variation of model parameters is affected by the catchment conditions and has a significant impact on hydrological simulation. This study aims to evaluate the seasonality and downscaling of model parameter across time scales based on monthly and mean annual water balance models with a common model framework. Two parameters of the monthly model, i.e., k and m, are assumed to be time-variant at different months. Based on the hydrological data set from 121 MOPEX catchments in the United States, we firstly analyzed the correlation between parameters (k and m) and catchment properties (NDVI and frequency of rainfall events, α). The results show that parameter k is positively correlated with NDVI or α, while the correlation is opposite for parameter m, indicating that precipitation and vegetation affect monthly water balance by controlling temporal variation of parameters k and m. The multiple linear regression is then used to fit the relationship between ε and the means and coefficient of variations of parameters k and m. Based on the empirical equation and the correlations between the time-variant parameters and NDVI, the mean annual parameter ε is downscaled to monthly k and m. The results show that it has lower NSEs than these from model with time-variant k and m being calibrated through SCE-UA, while for several study catchments, it has higher NSEs than that of the model with constant parameters. The proposed method is feasible and provides a useful tool for temporal scaling of model parameter.

Publication Date

3-1-2018

Publication Title

Journal of Hydrology

Volume

558

Number of Pages

290-300

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.01.049

Socpus ID

85041396240 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85041396240

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