Contrast and transferability of parameters of lumped water balance models in the <scp>S</scp>egura <scp>R</scp>iver <scp>B</scp>asin (<scp>S</scp>pain)

Pellicer-Martínez, Francisco; Martínez‐Paz, José Miguel

doi:10.1111/wej.12091

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“…The ABCD model is a monthly hydrological model with four parameters (a, b, c, and d) developed by Thomas Jr. [50], which uses precipitation and potential evapotranspiration to simulate actual evapotranspiration, surface/subsurface runoff, and storage changes [51]. It has been widely applied as a hydro-climatologic model to investigate the response of basins to climate change and performs well in humid or arid regions [52,53]. Considering that summer and autumn snowmelt in the LRB impact the regional water cycle, the snowmelt module proposed by Xu et al [54] was embedded into the primary ABCD model.…”

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Attribution Analysis of Dry Season Runoff in the Lhasa River Using an Extended Hydrological Sensitivity Method and a Hydrological Model

Mei

Chen

et al. 2019

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In this study, a coupled water-energy balance equation at an arbitrary time scale was proposed as an extension of the Budyko hypothesis. The second mixed partial derivative was selected to represent the magnitude of the interaction. The extended hydrological sensitivity method was used to quantitatively evaluate the impacts of climate change, anthropogenic activities, and their interaction on dry season runoff in the Lhasa River. In addition, an ABCD model, which is a monthly hydrological model included a snowmelt module, was used to calculate the change in soil water and groundwater storage. The Mann-Kendall test, Spearman's test, dynamic linear model (DLM), and Yamamoto's method were used to identify trends and change points in hydro-climatic variables from 1956-2016. The results found that dry season runoff increased non-significantly over the last 61 years. Climate change, which caused an increase in dry season runoff, was the dominant factor, followed by anthropogenic activities and their interaction, which led to varying degrees of decrease. This study concluded that the methods tested here performed well in quantifying the relative impacts of climate change, anthropogenic activities, and their interaction on dry season runoff change.

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Attribution Analysis of Dry Season Runoff in the Lhasa River Using an Extended Hydrological Sensitivity Method and a Hydrological Model

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Chen

et al. 2019

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“…The modified hydrological model was applied to a study site in the headwaters of the Segura River Basin District (southeast of Spain) (Perni et al ., ), which includes the catchments of the Segura and the Mundo Rivers (Pellicer‐Martínez and Martínez‐Paz, ), the most important features of which are shown in Table .…”

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Analysis of incorporating groundwater exchanges in hydrological models

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In many catchments, the geographical demarcation does not coincide with the limits of the aquifers, so groundwater may be exchanged beyond their topographic boundaries. By studying groundwater exchanges, the natural resources of a catchment can be better assessed, and the divergences between hydrological models and measurements can be explained. The aim of this work is to reveal the importance of including groundwater exchanges in the hydrological modelling of some catchments, using a water balance model. For this purpose, a simple example is conducted. The so-called parent model scheme is modified to only allow groundwater exchanges, and it is applied to the headwater of the Segura River Basin District, located in the southeast of Spain. This area is selected because groundwater plays an important role in surface hydrology. The results reveal that groundwater exchanges cannot be neglected in some catchments when assessing water resources because their integration in the hydrological model corrects errors in the water balance. Moreover, this paper proves that water balance models are a useful tool for estimating groundwater exchanges between catchments, which can be contrasted with more complex distributed models or isotopic tracers if there is enough information available.

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“…Vandewiele and Xu [17] also found that the ABCD model compares favorably with other more recent monthly water balance models in Belgium. Currently, the ABCD model has been found to have the best performance in the Segura River basin in southern Spain [97]. The GR2M model is widely used in France in all of its different versions [98].…”

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Evaluating Hydrological Models for Deriving Water Resources in Peninsular Spain

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Water availability is essential for the appropriate analysis of its sustainable management. We performed a comparative study of six hydrological balance models (Témez, ABCD, GR2M, AWBM, GUO-5p, and Thornthwaite-Mather) in several basins with different climatic conditions within Spain in the 1977–2010 period. We applied six statistical indices to compare the results of the models: the Akaike information criterion (AIC), the Bayesian information criterion (BIC), Nash–Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient (NSE), coefficient of determination (R2), percent bias (PBIAS), and the relative error between observed and simulated run-off volumes (REV). Furthermore, we applied the FITEVAL software to determine the uncertainty of the model. The results show that when the catchments are more humid the obtained results are better. The GR2M model gave the best fit in peninsular Spain in a UNEP aridity index framework above 1, and NSE values above 0.75 in a 95% confidence interval classify GR2M as very good for humid watersheds. The use of REV is also a key index in the assessment of the margin of error. Flow duration curves show good performance in the probabilities of exceedance lower than 80% in wet watersheds and deviations in low streamflows account for less than 5% of the total streamflow.

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Contrast and transferability of parameters of lumped water balance models in the Segura River Basin (Spain)

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Attribution Analysis of Dry Season Runoff in the Lhasa River Using an Extended Hydrological Sensitivity Method and a Hydrological Model

Attribution Analysis of Dry Season Runoff in the Lhasa River Using an Extended Hydrological Sensitivity Method and a Hydrological Model

Analysis of incorporating groundwater exchanges in hydrological models

Evaluating Hydrological Models for Deriving Water Resources in Peninsular Spain

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