Investigating the behaviour of a small Mediterranean catchment using three different hydrological models as hypotheses
Mediterranean catchments are characterized by strong nonlinearities in their hydrological behaviour. Properly simulating those nonlinearities still represents a great challenge and, at the same time, an important issue in order to improve our knowledge of their hydrological behaviour. The main aim o...
Saved in:
Published in | Hydrological processes Vol. 30; no. 13; pp. 2050 - 2062 |
---|---|
Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Chichester
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
30.06.2016
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
Summary: | Mediterranean catchments are characterized by strong nonlinearities in their hydrological behaviour. Properly simulating those nonlinearities still represents a great challenge and, at the same time, an important issue in order to improve our knowledge of their hydrological behaviour. The main aim of this work is find out diverse modelling approaches to reproduce the observed nonlinear hydrological behaviour in a small Mediterranean catchment, Can Vila (Vallcebre, NE Spain).
To this end, three hydrological models were considered: two lumped models called LU3 and LU4 of increasing complexity, and a distributed model called TETIS. The structures of these different models were used as hypotheses, which could explain and reproduce the observed nonlinear behaviour at the outlet. Four analyses were carried out: (i) goodness‐of‐fit criteria analysis, (ii) residual errors analysis, (iii) sensitivity analysis and (iv) multicriteria analysis based on the concept of Pareto Optimal. These analyses showed the higher capability and robustness of the distributed model to reproduce the observed complex hydrological behaviour in this catchment. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
---|---|
Bibliography: | C. Medici PROBASE - No. CGL2006-11619/HID PAID-06-12 - No. UPPTE/2012/139 ark:/67375/WNG-TDTRBG2F-6 RespHiMed - No. CGL2010-18374 CSIC Spanish Environment Ministry ArticleID:HYP10738 MONTES - No. CSD2008-00040 Spanish Science Ministry ECOTETIS - No. CGL2011-28776-C02-C01 istex:CE9E6902C3C05CC55D3E3D7CC34543A34F06FEAA ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0885-6087 1099-1085 |
DOI: | 10.1002/hyp.10738 |