Hydrological Model Calibration for Dammed Basins Using Satellite Altimetry Information

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruida Zhong ◽  
Tongtiegang Zhao ◽  
Xiaohong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Model Calibration ◽  
Satellite Altimetry ◽  
Hydrological Model

Hydrological model calibration with uncertain discharge data

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida K. Westerberg ◽  
Anna E. Sikorska-Senoner ◽  
Daniel Viviroli ◽  
Marc Vis ◽  
Jan Seibert
Keyword(s):  
Model Calibration ◽  
Hydrological Model ◽  
Discharge Data

Stepwise improvement of hydrological models using satellite-based evaporation and total water storage estimations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Hrachowitz ◽  
Petra Hulsman ◽  
Hubert Savenije
Keyword(s):  
Model Calibration ◽  
Hydrological Model ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Spatiotemporal Variability ◽  
Model Structure ◽  
Hydrological Models ◽  
Total Water ◽  
Spatiotemporal Model ◽  
Multiple Variables

<p>Hydrological models are often calibrated with respect to flow observations at the basin outlet. As a result, flow predictions may seem reliable but this is not necessarily the case for the spatiotemporal variability of system-internal processes, especially in large river basins. Satellite observations contain valuable information not only for poorly gauged basins with limited ground observations and spatiotemporal model calibration, but also for stepwise model development. This study explored the value of satellite observations to improve our understanding of hydrological processes through stepwise model structure adaption and to calibrate models both temporally and spatially. More specifically, satellite-based evaporation and total water storage anomaly observations were used to diagnose model deficiencies and to subsequently improve the hydrological model structure and the selection of feasible parameter sets. A distributed, process based hydrological model was developed for the Luangwa river basin in Zambia and calibrated with respect to discharge as benchmark. This model was modified stepwise by testing five alternative hypotheses related to the process of upwelling groundwater in wetlands, which was assumed to be negligible in the benchmark model, and the spatial discretization of the groundwater reservoir. Each model hypothesis was calibrated with respect to 1) discharge and 2) multiple variables simultaneously including discharge and the spatiotemporal variability in the evaporation and total water storage anomalies. The benchmark model calibrated with respect to discharge reproduced this variable well, as also the basin-averaged evaporation and total water storage anomalies. However, the evaporation in wetland dominated areas and the spatial variability in the evaporation and total water storage anomalies were poorly modelled. The model improved the most when introducing upwelling groundwater flow from a distributed groundwater reservoir and calibrating it with respect to multiple variables simultaneously. This study showed satellite-based evaporation and total water storage anomaly observations provide valuable information for improved understanding of hydrological processes through stepwise model development and spatiotemporal model calibration.</p>

scholarly journals How good are hydrological models for gap-filling streamflow data?

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 4593-4604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Zhang ◽  
David Post
Keyword(s):  
Model Calibration ◽  
Hydrological Model ◽  
Hydrological Models ◽  
Hydrological Response ◽  
Gap Filling ◽  
Annual Streamflow ◽  
Response Variable ◽  
Benchmark Data ◽  
Streamflow Data ◽  
Streamflow Trend

Abstract. Gap-filling streamflow data is a critical step for most hydrological studies, such as streamflow trend, flood, and drought analysis and hydrological response variable estimates and predictions. However, there is a lack of quantitative evaluation of the gap-filled data accuracy in most hydrological studies. Here we show that when the missing data rate is less than 10 %, the gap-filled streamflow data obtained using calibrated hydrological models perform almost the same as the benchmark data (less than 1 % missing) when estimating annual trends for 217 unregulated catchments widely spread across Australia. Furthermore, the relative streamflow trend bias caused by the gap filling is not very large in very dry catchments where the hydrological model calibration is normally poor. Our results clearly demonstrate that the gap filling using hydrological modelling has little impact on the estimation of annual streamflow and its trends.

scholarly journals Hydrological model calibration for derived flood frequency analysis using stochastic rainfall and probability distributions of peak flows

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 353-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Haberlandt ◽  
I. Radtke
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Model Calibration ◽  
Hydrological Model ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Flood Frequency ◽  
Rainfall Data ◽  
Flood Frequency Analysis ◽  
Peak Flows ◽  
Hourly Rainfall

Abstract. Derived flood frequency analysis allows the estimation of design floods with hydrological modeling for poorly observed basins considering change and taking into account flood protection measures. There are several possible choices regarding precipitation input, discharge output and consequently the calibration of the model. The objective of this study is to compare different calibration strategies for a hydrological model considering various types of rainfall input and runoff output data sets and to propose the most suitable approach. Event based and continuous, observed hourly rainfall data as well as disaggregated daily rainfall and stochastically generated hourly rainfall data are used as input for the model. As output, short hourly and longer daily continuous flow time series as well as probability distributions of annual maximum peak flow series are employed. The performance of the strategies is evaluated using the obtained different model parameter sets for continuous simulation of discharge in an independent validation period and by comparing the model derived flood frequency distributions with the observed one. The investigations are carried out for three mesoscale catchments in northern Germany with the hydrological model HEC-HMS (Hydrologic Engineering Center's Hydrologic Modeling System). The results show that (I) the same type of precipitation input data should be used for calibration and application of the hydrological model, (II) a model calibrated using a small sample of extreme values works quite well for the simulation of continuous time series with moderate length but not vice versa, and (III) the best performance with small uncertainty is obtained when stochastic precipitation data and the observed probability distribution of peak flows are used for model calibration. This outcome suggests to calibrate a hydrological model directly on probability distributions of observed peak flows using stochastic rainfall as input if its purpose is the application for derived flood frequency analysis.

scholarly journals Improving process representation in conceptual hydrological model calibration using climate simulations

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 5044-5073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Minville ◽  
Dominique Cartier ◽  
Catherine Guay ◽  
Louis-Alexandre Leclaire ◽  
Charles Audet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Model Calibration ◽  
Hydrological Model ◽  
Process Representation ◽  
Climate Simulations ◽  
Conceptual Hydrological Model

scholarly journals Multi-site calibration and validation of SWAT with satellite-based evapotranspiration in a data-sparse catchment in southwestern Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 1113-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abolanle E. Odusanya ◽  
Bano Mehdi ◽  
Christoph Schürz ◽  
Adebayo O. Oke ◽  
Olufiropo S. Awokola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Model Calibration ◽  
Hydrological Model ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Potential Evapotranspiration ◽  
Swat Model ◽  
Water Balance Components ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Calibration And Validation

Abstract. The main objective of this study was to calibrate and validate the eco-hydrological model Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) with satellite-based actual evapotranspiration (AET) data from the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM_v3.0a) and from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Global Evaporation (MOD16) for the Ogun River Basin (20 292 km2) located in southwestern Nigeria. Three potential evapotranspiration (PET) equations (Hargreaves, Priestley–Taylor and Penman–Monteith) were used for the SWAT simulation of AET. The reference simulations were the three AET variables simulated with SWAT before model calibration took place. The sequential uncertainty fitting technique (SUFI-2) was used for the SWAT model sensitivity analysis, calibration, validation and uncertainty analysis. The GLEAM_v3.0a and MOD16 products were subsequently used to calibrate the three SWAT-simulated AET variables, thereby obtaining six calibrations–validations at a monthly timescale. The model performance for the three SWAT model runs was evaluated for each of the 53 subbasins against the GLEAM_v3.0a and MOD16 products, which enabled the best model run with the highest-performing satellite-based AET product to be chosen. A verification of the simulated AET variable was carried out by (i) comparing the simulated AET of the calibrated model to GLEAM_v3.0b AET, which is a product that has different forcing data than the version of GLEAM used for the calibration, and (ii) assessing the long-term average annual and average monthly water balances at the outlet of the watershed. Overall, the SWAT model, composed of the Hargreaves PET equation and calibrated using the GLEAM_v3.0a data (GS1), performed well for the simulation of AET and provided a good level of confidence for using the SWAT model as a decision support tool. The 95 % uncertainty of the SWAT-simulated variable bracketed most of the satellite-based AET data in each subbasin. A validation of the simulated soil moisture dynamics for GS1 was carried out using satellite-retrieved soil moisture data, which revealed good agreement. The SWAT model (GS1) also captured the seasonal variability of the water balance components at the outlet of the watershed. This study demonstrated the potential to use remotely sensed evapotranspiration data for hydrological model calibration and validation in a sparsely gauged large river basin with reasonable accuracy. The novelty of the study is the use of these freely available satellite-derived AET datasets to effectively calibrate and validate an eco-hydrological model for a data-scarce catchment.

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