Evaluation of a grid-based river flow model using regional climate model output over Europe

Dadson, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6144-4639; Bell, V.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0792-5650; Jones, R.G.. 2008 Evaluation of a grid-based river flow model using regional climate model output over Europe. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 10, EGU2008-A-03853.

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Abstract/Summary

Regional Climate Models (RCMs) offer significant improvements over Global Cli- mate Models in terms of their representation of rainfall at the spatial and temporal scales required for hydrological modelling. Here we test a new implementation of a grid-based hydrological model embedded in a model of land-surface climatology (the Joint UK Land Exchange Scheme; JULES) against observed river flows in sev- eral major NW European rivers, including the Rhine, Maas, Elbe, Danube, Loire, and Seine. Our hydrological model includes a probability-distributed model of soil mois- ture and runoff production (PDM) coupled with a discrete approximation to the one- dimensional kinematic wave equation to route surface and subsurface water downs- lope (G2G). The model was driven with hourly output from the Hadley Centre regional climate model, using results from the ERA-40 reanalysis experiment as boundary con- ditions (1961-2000). The results of simulations for river catchments in northwest Eu- rope are presented and compared with measured river flows over the same time period, for the same locations. The success with which the runoff production and flow routing components of the land-surface model match observed flow data is evaluated.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Programmes:	CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Water > WA01 Water extremes
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Harding (to July 2011)
ISSN:	1029-7006
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Abstract only
Date made live:	26 Oct 2010 15:21 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9107

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Programmes:

CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Water > WA01 Water extremes

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Harding (to July 2011)

ISSN:

1029-7006

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Abstract only

Date made live:

26 Oct 2010 15:21 +0 (UTC)