Representing Bidirectional Hydraulic Continuum Between the Stream and Hillslope in the National Water Model for Improved Streamflow Prediction

Abstract

Streamflow forecasts have been increasingly gaining attention because of their potential uses in water resources management, reservoir operation, and flood-risk mitigation in the climate change era (Alfieri et al., 2013;Maurer, 2005;Zhao et al., 2011). Future water demand, expected to rise (Rinaudo, 2015), also calls for the improved streamflow predictability for sustainable use of water resources (Barthel, 2014). Effective water resources management should require viable tools to assist decision-making and process-based understanding of the dynamic hydrologic systems (