Improving the Predictive Skill of a Distributed Hydrological Model by Calibration on Spatial Patterns With Multiple Satellite Data Sets

Hydrological model calibration combining Earth observations and in situ measurements is a promising solution to overcome the limitations of the traditional streamflow-only calibration. However, combining multiple data sources in model calibration requires a meaningful integration of the data sets, which should harness their most reliable...

Predicting the ungauged basin: Model validation and realism assessment

The hydrological decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB) led to many new insights in model development, calibration strategies, data acquisition and uncertainty analysis. Due to a limited amount of published studies on genuinely ungauged basins, model validation and realism assessment of model outcome has not been discussed to a great...

Theories, Experiments, Tools: An applied hydrological spatio-temporal assessment of meso-scale basins with a view to regionalization

The thesis treats a selection of hydrological studies, which make use of a variety of models and approaches that have a common character: simplicity. Simplicity implies parsimonious use of parameters. These studies offer opportunities for hydrological research that are not, or hardly achievable with more complex models and approaches. In the...

Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

Field studies in watershed hydrology continue to characterize and catalogue the enormous heterogeneity and complexity of rainfall runoff processes in more and more watersheds, in different hydroclimatic regimes, and at different scales. Nevertheless, the ability to generalize these findings to ungauged regions remains out of reach. In spite of...

A monthly interception equation based on the statistical characteristics of daily rainfall

This paper presents a simple analytical equation for monthly interception on the basis of the combination of a daily threshold model with the probability distribution of daily rainfall. In this paper, interception has a wider definition than merely canopy interception. It is the part of the rainfall that evaporates after it has been stored on...