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HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 685-695Publisher
IAHS PRESS, INST HYDROLOGY
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.53.4.685
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continuous rainfall-streamflow modelling; model calibration; regionalisation; uncertainty; ungauged basins; unit hydrograph
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Employing 1-, 2-, 4-, 6-, 12- and 24-hourly data sets for two catchments (10.6 and 298 km(2)) in Wales, the calibrated parameters of a unit hydrograph-based model are shown to change substantially over that range of data time steps. For the smaller basin, each model parameter reaches, or approaches, a stable value as the data time step decreases, providing a straightforward method of estimating time-step independent model parameter values. For the larger basin, the model parameters also reach, or approach, stable values using hourly data, but, for reasons given in the paper, interpretation of the results is more difficult. Model parameter sensitivity analyses are presented that give insights into the relative precision oil the parameters for both catchments. The paper discusses the importance of accounting for model parameter data time-step dependency in pursuit of a reduction in the uncertainty associated with estimates of flow in Ungauged basins, and suggests that further work along these lines be undertaken using different catchments and models.
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